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View article: Prevalence, risk factors and treatment outcomes of isoniazid resistant TB in Bulawayo city, Zimbabwe: A cohort study
Prevalence, risk factors and treatment outcomes of isoniazid resistant TB in Bulawayo city, Zimbabwe: A cohort study Open
Introduction: The isoniazid-resistant TB poses a threat to TB control efforts. Zimbabwe, one of the high TB burden countries, has not explored the burden of isoniazid resistant TB. Hence among all bacteriologically-confirmed TB patients di…
View article: Prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Zimbabwe: A health facility-based cross-sectional survey
Prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Zimbabwe: A health facility-based cross-sectional survey Open
The prevalence of MDR-TB in Zimbabwe has remained stable since the 1994 subnational survey. However, the prevalence of rifampicin mono-resistance was double that of MDR-TB.
View article: How has the Zimbabwe mycobacterial culture and drug sensitivity testing system among re-treatment tuberculosis patients functioned during the scale-up of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay?
How has the Zimbabwe mycobacterial culture and drug sensitivity testing system among re-treatment tuberculosis patients functioned during the scale-up of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay? Open
While components of Zimbabwe's CDST system for re-treatment TB patients showed some changes during the scale-up of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay, overall performance was poor. The country must either invest in improving CDST performance or in ad…