Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics in Lao PDR: first multicentric study conducted in 3 hospitals

Table 4 History of the three previously treated patients

	Patient number (hospital)
	454 (MV)	165 (LP)	175 (TK)
Gender / age (years)	M / 54	M / 82	F / 31
date of 1^st diagnosis of TB	2003	2004	2004
1^st anti-TB regimen	2RHZE/6HE	2RHZE/6HE	2RHZE/6HE
Outcome of 1^st TB treatment	recovery	recovery	failure
Date of TB relapse	2010	2012	2007
Date of initiation of treatment	2012	a	2007
Current anti-TB regimen	2RHZES	a	2RHZES/6RHZE
Duration of treatment	2 months	a	8 months + H 3 years
Compliance with TB treatment	unknown	a	high
Clinical response to treatment	poor	a	poor (b)

a: the patient died before the culture results and did not receive the second-line treatment.
b: chronic pulmonary tuberculosis resistant to treatment.

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