Interventions for Tuberculosis Control and Elimination
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Some experts raised concern about the high frequency of deaths and asked whether the shorter regimen might be inferior but would be missing the occurrence of death because of the shorter observation period. As follow-up was available beyond treatment, this graphs shows that death occurred rather similarly in both groups. Patients in this program often presented late after long periods of prior unsuccessful treatment and succumbed to the sequelae of tuberculosis resulting in destroyed lungs in a large proportion of patients, irrespective of the treatment arm on which they were enrolled.
