Table 1. Treatment outcome of 241 multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients diagnosed and treated in 2004 and then followed up in 2008*.
| Status at follow-up in 2008 | Initial treatment outcome from TB episode in 2004 | ||||||
| Cure | TC | Failure | Death | Default | TO | Total (%) | |
| No recurrence | 46 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 50 (38.8) |
| - death, not due to TB | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 (5.8) |
| Recurrence | 55 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 79 (61.2) |
| - SS+ and/or C+ in 2008 | 22 ** | 1 ** | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 30 (23.3) *** |
| - death due to TB | 22 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 36 (27.9) |
| Subtotal with follow-up | 101 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 129 (53.5) |
| Transferred out | 28 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 46 (19.1) |
| Migrant workers | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 28 (11.6) |
| Refused | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (2.9) |
| Lost | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 (8.7) |
| Died during treatment in 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 (4.2) |
| Total | 179 | 15 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 241 (100.0) |
TC = Treatment completed; TO = Transferred out; SS+ = sputum smear positive; C+ = culture positive.
*The data include 113 new and 128 retreatment MDR-TB cases.
**SS+C+: 19; SS−C+: 4.
***SS+C+: 22; SS+C−: 2; SS−C+: 6.