Experience on the first national anti-TB drug resistance survey (DRS) in Timor-Leste

• Main Authors: Constantino Lopes (Author), Debashish Kundu (Author), Ismael Da Costa Barreto (Author), Bernardino da Cruz (Author), S. Siva Kumar (Author), Sureshbabu Ramalingam (Author), Anna S. Dean (Author), Vineet Bhatia (Author), Prabhu Seenivasan (Author), C. Padmapriyadarsini (Author), Olga Tosas Auguet (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A national drug resistance survey (DRS) was implemented for the first time in Timor-Leste (TL) in 2019. The primary objective of the survey was to assess the prevalence of drug resistance among new and previously treated pulmonary TB patients in the country. Methods This nation-w...