Table 4 |
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Outcome of TB treatment adapted from WHO and IUATLD criteria [5] |
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Pulmonary C+ TB* n = 144 (%) |
Pulmonary S+ TB* n = 68 (%) |
†All cases TB n = 252 (%) |
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Successful |
115 (80) |
59 (87) |
210 (83) |
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Unsuccessful |
29 (20) |
9 (13) |
42 (17) |
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Death |
4 (2.8) |
1 (1.5) |
4 (1.6) |
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Treatment failure |
1 (0.7) |
1 (1.5) |
2 (1) |
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Defaulters |
6 (4) |
0 (0) |
8 (3) |
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Transfer out |
18 (13) |
7 (10) |
28 (11) |
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Departure from country |
13 |
4 |
23 |
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Extradition |
3 |
2 |
3 |
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Follow-up by specialist or other hospital in Switzerland with no information available |
2 |
1 |
2 |
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C+ = culture positive; S+ = smear positive *new cases of pulmonary TB †WHO criteria do not apply to extrapulmonary TB: however, results for all TB cases are shown for comparison |
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Kherad et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2009 9:217 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-9-217 |
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