Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in a high income country: A report of four unrelated cases

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 2 Course of disease, outcome

	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4
First time TB diagnosis	1995	1992	1985	2001
Immigration Date	August-97	July-97	March-92	March-03
Duration between TB and MDR TB diagnosis	2 years	5 years	12 years	2 years
Duration between MDR TB and XDR TB diagnosis	2 years	5 years	1.3 years	concurrent
Duration between XDR TB diagnosis and end of antituberculous drug therapy in Germany	2.4 years	1.9 years	2 years	2.5 years
Overall length of inhospital treatment in Germany	4.5 years	6 years	6 years	11 months
Outcome	treatment failure	cure	death	cure
Last sputum cultures	positive	negative	positive	negative
Radiologic signs of activity	present	not present	present	not present
Known transmission of XDR strain to contacts	no	no	no	no

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