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New effective treatment regimen for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis

Heather Mason   |   Medical News   |   30 December 2022
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The regimen duration is half that of standard treatments.

Research supported by Médecins sans Frontières has found that a six-month treatment regimen of oral bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, plus moxifloxacin (BPaLM) for treating rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis was not inferior to the accepted standard care treatment, with a better safety profile.

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