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 | ||
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≦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