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. 2016 Feb 4;16:26. doi: 10.1186/s12890-016-0187-3

Table 3.

Treatment outcomes of both pan-susceptible TB cases throughout SCC and those acquired drug resistant TB during treatment

Treatment outcomes n(%) Pan-susceptible TB throughouta N = 1609 Acquired drug resistant TB N = 62
≦2 months 3–5 months Total
Successfully treated 1357(84.3) 44(84.6) 2(20.0) 46(74.1)
Failed 102(6.3) 6(11.5) 7(70.0) 13(21.0)
Died 36(2.2) 0(0.0) 1(10.0) 1(1.6)
Defaulted 39(2.4) 1(1.9) 0(0.0) 1(1.6)
Not evaluated 75(4.7) 1(1.9) 0(0.0) 1(1.6)

aPan-susceptible TB throughout in our study was defined as cases with TB strains susceptible to all four first-line anti-TB drugs including isoniazid(H), rifampicin (R), ethambutol (E), and streptomycin (S) both pretreatment and throughout the therapy