Long-term linezolid treatment in a young child with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
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2009
Authors
Schaaf H.S.
Willemse M.
Donald P.R.
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Treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a challenge. We describe a young child with pulmonary XDR-TB who did not respond to an aggressive multidrug-resistant TB treatment regimen, but was cured with linezolid in combination with other reserve antituberculous drugs. No serious adverse events were observed during 19 months of treatment for XDR-TB. Copyright © 2009 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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amikacin, capreomycin, clarithromycin, ethambutol, ethionamide, isoniazid, linezolid, ofloxacin, pyrazinamide, pyridoxine, rifampicin, terizidone, absence of side effects, anamnesis, antibiotic resistance, article, bronchoscopy, case report, child, child care, clinical feature, combination chemotherapy, extensively drug resistant tuberculosis, female, human, peripheral neuropathy, preschool child, priority journal, thorax radiography, Acetamides, Antitubercular Agents, Drug Administration Schedule, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Female, Humans, Infant, Oxazolidinones, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
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Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
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