Eliminating the category II retreatment regimen from National Tuberculosis Programme guidelines: the Georgian experience

• Main Authors: Jennifer Furin (Author), Medea Gegia (Author), Carole Mitnick (Author), Michael Rich (Author), Sonya Shin (Author), Mercedes Becerra (Author), Peter Drobac (Author), Paul Farmer (Author), Rocio Hurtado (Author), J Keith Joseph (Author), Salmaan Keshavjee (Author), Iagor Kalandadze (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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PROBLEM: The category II retreatment regimen for management of tuberculosis in previously treated patients was first introduced in the early 1990s. It consists of 8 months of total therapy with the addition of streptomycin to standard first-line medications. A review of 6500 patients on category II...