IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Comprehensive care and support significantly boosts MDR-TB successful treatment completion
Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” discusses findings from a paper published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on treatment outcomes of multidrug-resistant TB in Taiwan. Barton notes the study found that comprehensive care and support “substantially improved cure rates and drastically reduced rates of patients whose outcomes were unknown” (2/5).