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    Prolonged Infectiousness of Tuberculosis Patients in a Directly Observed Therapy Short‐Course Program with Standardized Therapy
    (Oxford University Press, 2010) Sean Fitzwater; Luz Caviedes; Robert H. Gilman; Jorge Coronel; Doris LaChira; Cayo Salazar; Juan Carlos Saravia; Krishna P. Reddy; Jon S. Friedland; David Moore
    Smear and culture conversion in treated tuberculosis patients takes longer than is conventionally believed, even with fully susceptible disease, and must be accounted for in tuberculosis treatment and prevention programs. Persistent day 60 smear positivity is a poor predictor of multidrug resistance. The industrialized-world convention of universal baseline DST for tuberculosis patients should become the standard of care in multidrug resistance-affected resource-limited settings.