India reports the largest number of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases in the world; yet, no longitudinal study has assessed factors related to treatment outcomes under programmatic conditions in the public sector.To describe demographic, clinical, and risk characteristics associated with treatment outcomes for all patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis registered in the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Kerala State, India from January 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.Cox regression methods were used to calculate adjusted hazard ratios with 95

作者：Karthickeyan, Duraisamy；Sunilkumar, Mrithyunjayan；Smita, Ghosh；Sreenivas Achuthan, Nair；Shibu, Balakrishnan；Jayasankar, Subramoniapillai；John E, Oeltmann；Patrick K, Moonan；Ajay M V, Kumar

来源：Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2014 年 11卷 5期