Pronóstico de la tuberculosis pulmonar mono y polirresistente en la ciudad de Santa Cruz (Bolivia)

Recent tuberculosis advances in Latin America

“…The WHO-promoted DOTS strategy has had recent success in South America, for instance in Peru, where improved detection and control has been associated with considerable reduction in infection rates [2]. However, although patients with single-drug resistant or MDR tuberculosis were cured with the same level of success as drug-sensitive tuberculosis in Bolivia, high rates of treatment dropout led to overall poor cure rates [44•]. This presumably contributes to Bolivia's high tuberculosis prevalence compared with other South American countries (Table 1).…”