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Australia

• Department of Health Australia
  • Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically-confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2011: A report of the Australian Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory Network [2014]
  • National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - Information Paper (October 2007) [2007]

Azerbaijan

• Public Health Action
  • First national survey of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in Azerbaijan and risk factors analysis [2014]

Bangladesh

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • First Bangladesh National Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Survey, 2010-2011 [2013]

Belarus

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Belarus: the size of the problem and associated risk factors [2013]

Brazil

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Operational lessons drawn from pilot implementation of Xpert MTB/Rif in Brazil [2014]

Central Asia

• Public Health Action
  • Challenges and solutions to implementing drug-resistant tuberculosis programmes for children in Central Asia [2015]

China

• Biomedical and Environmental Sciences
  • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Primary Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in China [2016]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) disease burden in China: a systematic review and spatio-temporal analysis [2017]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Cost–effectiveness of a comprehensive programme for drug-resistant tuberculosis in China [2015]

• Infectious Diseases of Poverty
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis control in China: progress and challenges [2016]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Effect of a comprehensive programme to provide universal access to care for sputum-smear-positive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in China: a before-and-after study [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • The Prevalence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Mainland China: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2016]
  • Prevalence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Mainland China: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2011]

Cochrane

• Cochrane Library
  • Xpert® MTB/RIF assay for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults
  • GenoType® MTBDRsl assay for resistance to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs
  • Drugs for preventing tuberculosis in people at risk of multiple-drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis

Côte d'Ivoire

• BioMed Research International
  • Emergence in Western African Countries of MDR-TB, Focus on Côte d'Ivoire [2013]

Dominican Republic

• Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
  • Culture and drug susceptibility testing among previously treated tuberculosis patients in the Dominican Republic, 2014 [2016]

Eastern Africa

• Tuberculosis
  • Epidemiology and genetic diversity of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in East Africa [2014]

Eastern Europe

• Public Health Action
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis in Eastern Europe: challenges and ways forward [2014]

Eastern Mediterranean

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Strategic plan for the prevention and control of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [2010]

Estonia

• European Respiratory Journal
  • Cost and cost-effectiveness of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in Estonia and Russia [2012]

• Public Health Action
  • A four-year nationwide molecular epidemiological study in Estonia: risk factors for tuberculosis transmission [2014]

Ethiopia

• Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia: efforts to expand diagnostic services, treatment and care [2014]

Europe

• Drug Resistance Updates
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO European Region: An analysis of surveillance data [2013]

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Molecular typing for surveillance of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the EU/EEA [2017]
  • Healthcare system factors influencing treatment results of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2014]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Childhood multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the European Union and European Economic Area: an analysis of tuberculosis surveillance data from 2007 to 2015 [2017]

• Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia
  • Team approach to manage difficult-to-treat TB cases: Experiences in Europe and beyond [2017]

• TBNET
  • Clinical implications of molecular drug resistance testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a TBNET/RESIST-TB consensus statement [2016]
  • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Europe, 2010–2011 [2015]
  • Management of patients with multidrug-resistant/extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET consensus statement [2014]
  • Epidemiology and clinical management of XDR-TB: a systematic review by TBNET [2009]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Good practices in the prevention and care of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis in correctional facilities (2018) [2018]
  • Regional Green Light Committee for the WHO European Region workshop and face-to-face meeting: Introduction of new medicines for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO European Region (2017) [2017]
  • European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative - Regional TB and MDR-TB Diagnosis Workshop Report (2017) [2017]
  • Algorithm for laboratory diagnosis and treatment-monitoring of pulmonary tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis using state-of-the-art rapid molecular diagnostic technologies (2017) [2017]
  • Good practices in strengthening health systems for the prevention and care of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis (2015) [2015]
  • The role of surgery in the treatment of pulmonary TB and multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant TB [2014]
  • Regional workshop on models of care for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2014]
  • Best practices in prevention, control and care for drug-resistant tuberculosis. A resource for the continued implementation of the Consolidated Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Multidrug- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the WHO European Region, 2011–2015 [2013]
  • Roadmap to prevent and combat drug-resistant tuberculosis : the consolidated action plan to prevent and combat multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO European Region 2011-2015 [2011]
  • Expert consultation on antimicrobial resistance: report on a meeting 25 August 2010 [2011]
  • Eighth meeting of national tuberculosis programme managers and thirteenth Wolfheze workshop : Wolfheze 2008 : tuberculosis management, surveillance and evaluation in Europe with high rates or threat of multidrug resistant tuberculosis [2008]

Germany

• Respiratory Medicine
  • Cost of multi drug resistance tuberculosis in Germany [2014]

Guatemala

• Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
  • Implementation of the national tuberculosis guidelines on culture and drug sensitivity testing in Guatemala, 2013 [2016]

Guinea

• Infection, Genetics and Evolution
  • First insights into circulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineages and drug resistance in Guinea [2015]

India

• Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy
  • Managing drug-resistant tuberculosis: experiences from India [2010]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in India: A review [2012]
  • Drug resistance in tuberculosis in India [2004]

International

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Integrating tuberculosis and antimicrobial resistance control programmes [2018]
  • Decentralized care for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
  • Building clinical trial capacity to develop a new treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2016]
  • The need to accelerate access to new drugs for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2015]
  • Reducing the price of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis through the Global Drug Facility [2015]
  • Principles for designing future regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2014]
  • Surveillance of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world: an updated analysis, 2007–2010 [2012]
  • Challenging a dogma: antimicrobial susceptibility testing breakpoints for Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2012]

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Global Progress and Challenges in Implementing New Medications for Treating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2016]
  • Global Introduction of New Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Drugs—Balancing Regulation with Urgent Patient Needs [2016]
  • Additional Drug Resistance of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Patients in 9 Countries [2015]

• European Respiratory Journal
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis around the world: what progress has been made? [2014]

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Double Standards in Global Health: Medicine, Human Rights Law and Multidrug-Resistant TB Treatment Policy [2016]

• International Council of Nurses
  • TB Guidelines for Nurses in the Care and Control of Tuberculosis and Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis [2015]

• International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • Guidelines for the Clinical and Operational Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2013]
  • DR-TB drugs under the microscope: the sources and prices of medicines [2013]

• Lancet
  • Incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis disease in children: systematic review and global estimates [2014]

• Médecins Sans Frontières
  • New developments in the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: clinical utility of bedaquiline and delamanid [2015]
  • Implementing the Xpert® MTB/RIF Diagnostic Test for Tuberculosis and Rifampicin Resistance: Outcomes and Lessons Learned in 18 Countries [2015]

• Pediatrics
  • Global and Regional Burden of Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis [2015]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Association between Regimen Composition and Treatment Response in Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Prospective Cohort Study [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: An Updated Research Agenda [2016]

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • MDR-TB Planning Toolkit [2012]

Iran

• Frontiers in Microbiology
  • First-Line Anti-Tubercular Drug Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in IRAN: A Systematic Review [2016]

• Tanaffos
  • Management of MDR-TB: Review of Iran's Experience [2013]

Latvia

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Treatment and management of MDR-TB in Latvia [2007]

• Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
  • The value of effective public tuberculosis treatment: an analysis of opportunity costs associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Latvia [2013]

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Decreased Time to Treatment Initiation for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients after Use of Xpert MTB/RIF Test, Latvia [2016]

• Public Health Action
  • Multi- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Latvia: trends, characteristics and treatment outcomes [2014]

Lesotho

• African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
  • Knowledge and practices about multidrug-resistant tuberculosis amongst healthcare workers in Maseru [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Antituberculosis Drug Resistance Survey in Lesotho, 2008-2009: Lessons Learned [2015]

Lithuania

• Medicina
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lithuania – Still a long way ahead [2016]

Low and middle-income countries

• Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Management of multidrug-resistant TB: novel treatments and their expansion to low resource settings [2016]

Malawi

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey [2014]

Mexico

• Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
  • Drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mexico [2009]

• Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
  • Culture and drug sensitivity testing among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Mexico: national data for 2009–2013 [2016]

• Salud Pública de México
  • Drug resistance and molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mexico: a systematic review [2014]

Middle East

• International Journal of Mycobacteriology
  • Epidemiology of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug resistant, and totally drug resistant tuberculosis in Middle East countries [2016]

Moldova

• European Respiratory Journal
  • High risk and rapid appearance of multidrug resistance during tuberculosis treatment in Moldova [2014]

Mongolia

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Patients for Whom First-Line Treatment Failed, Mongolia, 2010–2011 [2015]

Nigeria

• PLoS ONE
  • Procurement and Supply Management System for MDR-TB in Nigeria: Are the Early Warning Targets for Drug Stock Outs and Over Stock of Drugs Being Achieved? [2015]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Cost-optimization in the treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Nigeria [2015]

North Korea

• PLoS Medicine
  • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment in North Korea: Is Scale-Up Possible? [2016]
  • The Growing Problem of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in North Korea [2013]

Pakistan

• Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
  • Prevalence and drug resistance pattern of MDR TB in retreatment cases of Punjab, Pakistan [2016]

Papua New Guinea

• PLoS ONE
  • The Burden of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea: Results of a Large Population-Based Survey [2016]

Republic of Korea

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
  • WHO Treatment Guidelines for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, 2016 Update: Applicability in South Korea [2017]
  • Medical Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2015]

Saudi Arabia

• Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • Epidemiology of Antituberculosis Drug Resistance in Saudi Arabia: Findings of the First National Survey [2013]

Singapore

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • The imminent threat of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Singapore [2012]

Somalia

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Somalia, 2010–2011 [2013]

South Africa

• Department of Health South Africa
  • Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Policy Guidelines [2013]
  • Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - Policy framework on decentralised and deinstitutionalised management for South Africa [2011]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Predictors of mortality and treatment success during treatment for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis within the South African National TB Programme, 2009 to 2011: a cohort analysis of the national case register [2015]

• International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • Epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis among children and adolescents in South Africa, 2005–2010 [2015]
  • A national infection control evaluation of drug-resistant tuberculosis hospitals in South Africa [2012]

• Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Molecular Epidemiological Interpretation of the Epidemic of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • What is the Cost of Diagnosis and Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa? [2013]

South-East Asia

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: Report of the 5th meeting of Regional Advisory Committee (r-GLC SEAR) on MDR-TB, Mumbai, 29-31 May 14 [2014]
  • Programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis: Report of a regional workshop, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 17-21 September 2012 [2013]
  • Combating drug-resistant tuberculosis [2013]
  • The South East Asia Regional Response Plan for Drug Resistant TB care and control 2011-2015 [2011]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Trends in prevalence of multi drug resistant tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]

Swaziland

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • High Prevalence of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Swaziland, 2009–2010 [2012]

Switzerland

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Treatment outcomes of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Switzerland [2014]

Taiwan

• PLoS ONE
  • Population-Based Drug Resistance Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Taiwan, 2007-2014 [2016]

Turkmenistan

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Turkmenistan: results of a nationwide survey, 2012 to 2013 (2015) [2015]

Uganda

• PLoS ONE
  • Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance among New and Previously Treated Sputum Smear-Positive Tuberculosis Patients in Uganda: Results of the First National Survey [2013]

United Kingdom

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Acquired Resistance to Antituberculosis Drugs in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, 2000–2015 [2018]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Twenty years and counting: epidemiology of an outbreak of isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis in England and Wales, 1995 to 2014 [2017]

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Systematic review, meta-analysis and economic modelling of molecular diagnostic tests for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis [2015]

• NHS England
  • Bedaquiline and Delamanid for defined patients with MDR-TB and XDR-TB [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Cost-Effectiveness of Adding Bedaquiline to Drug Regimens for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the UK [2015]

• QJM
  • Isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis in Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1999–2010 [2015]

Ukraine

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance among tuberculosis patients in Ukraine and risk factors for MDR-TB (2016) [2016]

United States of America

• CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Drug-Resistant TB

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Provisional CDC Guidelines for the Use and Safety Monitoring of Bedaquiline Fumarate (Sirturo) for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2013]
  • Interruptions in Supplies of Second-Line Antituberculosis Drugs — United States, 2005–2012 [2013]
  • Availability of an Assay for Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Including Rifampin-Resistant Strains, and Considerations for Its Use — United States, 2013 [2013]

Uzbekistan

• EuroSurveillance
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Uzbekistan: results of a nationwide survey, 2010 to 2011 [2013]

Vietnam

• BMC Public Health
  • Challenges in detection and treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients in Vietnam [2015]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Prevalence of resistance to second-line tuberculosis drug among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Viet Nam, 2011 [2016]

West Africa

• BMC Medicine
  • The emerging threat of pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in West Africa: preparing for large-scale tuberculosis research and drug resistance surveillance [2016]

Western Pacific

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO Western Pacific Region [2014]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO Treatment Guidelines for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, 2016 Update [2016]
  • The use of molecular line probe assays for the detection of resistance to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs [2016]
  • The use of molecular line probe assays for the detection of resistance to isoniazid and rifampicin [2016]
  • The use of delamanid in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children and adolescents: Interim policy guidance [2016]
  • Guidelines for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis - 5th edition [2015]
  • Framework for the engagement of all health care providers in the management of drug resistant tuberculosis [2015]
  • Best practices in engagement of all health care providers in the management of drug resistant tuberculosis [2015]
  • A situation assessment tool to engage all relevant care providers in drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) management at country level [2015]
  • Xpert MTB/RIF implementation manual [2014]
  • Xpert MTB/RIF assay for the diagnosis of pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB in adults and children [2014]
  • The use of delamanid in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: interim policy guidance [2014]
  • Management of drug-resistant tuberculosis - Training for staff working at DR-TB management centres [2014]
  • Companion handbook to the WHO guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis [2014]
  • Interim guidance on the use of bedaquiline to treat MDR-TB [2013]
  • Automated Real-Time Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology for Rapid and Simultaneous Detection of Tuberculosis and Rifampicin Resistance: Xpert MTB/RIF Assay for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary TB in Adults and Children: Policy Update [2013]
  • Towards universal access to diagnosis and treatment of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis by 2015 : WHO progress report 2011 [2011]
  • Rapid implementation of the Xpert MTB/RIF diagnostic test: technical and operational 'How-to'; practical considerations [2011]
  • Policy statement: automated real-time nucleic acid amplification technology for rapid and simultaneous detection of tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance: Xpert MTB/RIF system [2011]
  • Noncommercial culture and drug-susceptibility testing methods for screening patients at risk for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: policy statement [2011]
  • Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis - 2011 update [2011]
  • Checklist of prerequisites to country implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF and key action points at country level [2011]
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) indicators: a minimum set of indicators for the programmatic management of MDR-TB in national tuberculosis control programmes [2010]
  • Multidrug and extensively drug-resistant TB (M/XDR-TB) : 2010 global report on surveillance and response [2010]
  • Green light committee initiative of the working group on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis of the Stop TB partnership: annual report 2009 [2010]
  • Management of MDR-TB: A field guide [2009]
  • Green light committee initiative of the working group on MDR-TB of the Stop TB partnership: annual report 2008 [2009]
  • Global tuberculosis control and patient care : meeting report : a ministerial meeting of high M/XDR-TB burden countries [2009]
  • Policy guidance on drug-susceptibility testing (DST) of second-line antituberculosis drugs [2008]
  • Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis [2008]
  • Green light committee initiative of the working group on MDR-TB of the Stop TB partnership: annual report 2007 [2008]
  • Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world : fourth global report [2008]
  • The global MDR-TB & XDR-TB response plan 2007-2008 [2007]

Zambia

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • The Second Zambian National Tuberculosis Drug Resistance survey – a comparison of conventional and molecular methods [2015]
  • Multidrug-resistant TB in Zambia: review of national data from 2000 to 2011 [2013]

Articles in journals

• Thorax
  • What are the most efficacious treatment regimens for isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis? A systematic review and network meta-analysis [2016]

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