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https://dora.health.qld.gov.au/qldresearchjspui/handle/1/6622| Title: | Pre-extensively Drug-Resistant Congenital Tuberculosis in an Extremely Premature Baby. | Authors: | Alison Boast How JA Charis Lau Arun Sett Gilby D Burke A McWhinney B Wright C Tramontana A Maria Globan Denholm J Graham SM Osowicki J |
Issue Date: | 2024 | Journal: | Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America | Abstract: | We describe a case of congenital tuberculosis in an extremely premature baby, with rapid molecular detection of a pre-extensively drug-resistant (XDR) pattern of drug resistance. The baby was treated successfully with a regimen including bedaquline and delamanid, drugs not previously described in the treatment of congenital tuberculosis (TB). | Type: | Journal Article |
| Appears in Sites: | Queensland Health Publications |
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