Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Infections
Summary
- All patients should receive drug-susceptibility testing to first-line TB drugs[DHHS Adult OI; Nahid 2016]
- Patients who continue to have positive results on mycobacterial culture after 4 months of treatment should undergo drug susceptibility testing on newly obtained specimens[DHHS Adult OI]
- Specimens with resistance to first-line TB drugs should undergo drug-susceptibility testing to second-line TB drugs only in laboratories with extensive expertise with this testing[DHHS Adult OI]
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Keywords: Tuberculosis