Fig. 1

Flow diagram of eligible cases for analysis. * 64 STREAM trial participants from 2012 and 2015 were excluded as they received 9-month regimen and were not enrolled in the PMDT. † 3 patients died before MDR-TB treatment. ‡ 39 isoniazid susceptible TB patients received MDR-TB treatment, including 38 cases with mono rifampicin resistance and 1 case with mono streptomycin resistance (susceptible to both isoniazid and rifampicin). § Missing outcome data: both treatment outcome and culture results were not recorded