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Table 3 Interim 6-months treatment outcomes by type of patient

From: High rates of culture conversion and low loss to follow-up in MDR-TB patients managed at Regional Referral Hospitals in Uganda

Patient type at start of MDR-TB treatment

Number of patients

Number (Percent) of patients with favourable treatment outcome

Category 1 failure

20

20 (100%)

Category 2 failure

37

31 (83.8%)

All failures (Categories 1 and 2)

57

58 (87.8%)

Loss to follow up

6

4 (66.7%)

New

5

4 (80.0%)

Relapse

1

0 (0.0%)

  1. The Italic values are a total of Category 1 and Category 2 failures