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. 2023 Dec 7;230(2):e447–e456. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiad564

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Figure 1. — Quantification of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) from the sputa of subjects with drug-sensitive (DS) or drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis during the first 2 months of therapy with first-line or second-line regimens, respectively. A, Maximum Mtb count (Mtb^Max) obtained by colony-forming units or most probable number from the liquid limiting dilution assay performed with or without culture filtrate. B, Time to positivity (TTP) by BACTEC MGIT. Top panels show data per subject and bottom panels show median values per cohort, with error bars representing 95% confidence intervals.