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Books

Management of MDR-TB: A field guide
by Hind Satti and Kwonjune Seung. This guide was created to help health workers diagnose MDR-TB, initiate second-line anti-TB drugs, and monitor MDRTB treatment.
WHO (2009)

PIH Guide to the Medical Management of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
This guide is intended to be a resource for physicians and other health care professionals who provide care and treatment to patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in DOTS-Plus projects in resource-poor areas.

A DOTS-Plus Handbook – Guide to the Community-Based Treatment of MDR TB
by Partners In Health, Harvard Medical School, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2002)

Guía para el Acompañante en Tuberculosis
A simple, illustrated guide for participants in Socios En Salud's Peer Mentorship program – former MDR-TB Patients who provide education, advice and treatment support to current patients. In Spanish.
Socios En Salud (2007)

The Global Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Harvard Medical School, Open Society Institute

Tuberculosis control: Financial Evaluation For the 2001 - 2005 Period in Low and Lower Middle-income Countries: Economic Annex to the Global Plan to Stop TB
by Olivier Appaix
Partners In Health (June, 2003)

Research articles

Early Outcomes of MDR-TB Treatment in a High HIV-Prevalence Setting in Southern Africa
Seung KJ, Omatayo DB, Keshavjee S, Furin JJ, Farmer PE, et al.
PLoS ONE. 2009

Treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Tomsk, Russia: a retrospective cohort study
Keshavjee S, Gelmanova IY, Farmer PE, Mishustin SP, Strelis AK, Andreev YG, Pasechnikov AD, Atwood S, Mukherjee JS, Rich ML, Furin JJ, Nardell EA, Kim JY, Shin SS.
Lancet. 2008

Comprehensive treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
Mitnick CD, Shin SS, Seung KJ, Rich ML, Atwood SS, Furin JJ, Fitzmaurice GM, Alcantara Viru FA, Appleton SC, Bayona JN, Bonilla CA, Chalco K, Choi S, Franke MF, Fraser HS, Guerra D, Hurtado RM, Jazayeri D, Joseph K, Llaro K, Mestanza L, Mukherjee JS, Muñoz M, Palacios E, Sanchez E, Sloutsky A, Becerra MC.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2008

Programmatic implementation of rapid DST for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Peru
Asencios, L., Yale, G., Yagui, M., Quispe, N., Taylor, A., Blaya, J., Contreras, C., Cegielski, P., Bayona, J., Bonilla, C., Shin, S.
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2008

Representative drug-susceptibility patterns for guiding design of retreatment regimens for MDR-TB
Rich ML, Socci AR, Mitnick CD, Nardell EA, Becerra MC, Bonilla C, Bayona J, Seung KJ, Furin JJ, Farmer PE, Mukherjee JS
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2006

MDR-TB retreatment regimens: design guidance from drug susceptibility patterns in representative local patient populations
Rich ML, Socci AR, Mitnick CD, Nardell EA, Becerra MC, Bonilla C, Bayona J, Seung KJ, Farmer PE, Mukherjee JS
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2006;10(3):290-296

Long-term follow-up for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Shin SS, Furin JJ, Alcantara F, Bayona J, Sanchez E, Mitnick CD.
Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2006;12(4):687-688.

Surgical therapy for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis: report of 121 cases receiving community- based treatment in Lima, Peru
Somocurcio J, Sotomayor A, Shin S, Portilla S, Valcarcel M, Guerra D, Furin JJ.
Thorax. 2006

Validation of a rapid method for detection of M. tuberculosis resistance to isoniazid and rifampin in Lima, Peru
Solis L, Shin SS, Han LL, Llanos F, Stowell M, Sloutsky A
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2005;9(7):760-764

Drug-resistance profiles of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates: Five years experience and insight into treatment strategies for multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Lima, Peru
Timperi R, Han LL, Sloutsky A, Becerra MC, Nardell EA, Salazar JJ, Smith-Fawzi MC
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2005;9(2):175-180

Re-treatment management strategies when first-line tuberculosis therapy fails
Saravia JC, Appleton SC, Rich ML, Sarria M, Bayona J, Becerra MC
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2005;9(4):421-429

M. rpoB gene mutations in clinical isolates in multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Northern Lima, Peru
Shin S, Naroditskaya V, Sloutsky A, Werner B, Timperi R, Bayona J, Farmer P, Becerra
Microbial Drug Resistance. 2005;11(1):26-30

Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis during pregnancy: long-term follow-up of six children with intrauterine exposure to second-line agents
Drobac PC, del Castillo H, Sweetland A, Anca G, Joseph J, Furin, Shin S
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2005;40(11):1689-1692.

Community-based therapy for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Drobac PC, Mukherjee JS, Joseph JK, Mitnick C, Furin JJ, del Castillo H, Shin SS, Becerra MC
Pediatrics. 2006;117(6):2022-2029

Disintegrating Health Services and Resurgent Tuberculosis in Post-Soviet Tajikistan:
An Example of Structural Violence
Keshavjee S, Becerra M.
Journal of the American Medical Association, March 1, 2000, Vol. 283:9, 1201

Treatment Outcomes in an Integrated Civilian and Prison Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Program in Russia
Shin S S, Pasechnikov A D, Gelmanova I Y, Peremitin G G, Strelis A K, Andreev Y G, Golubchikova V T, Tonkel T P, Yanova G V, Nikiforov M, Yedilbayev A, Mukherjee J S, Furin J J, Barry D J, Farmer P E, Rich M L, Keshavjee S
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, April 2006, Vol. 10(4): 402-408.

Causes of death during tuberculosis treatment in Tomsk Oblast, Russia
Mathew TA, Ovsyanikova TN, Shin SS, Gelmanova I, Balbuena DA, Atwood S, Peremitin GG, Strelis AK, Murray MB. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2006;10(8):857-863.

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in urban Rwanda: a case series of highly resistant tuberculosis from a public hospital in Kigali
Furin JJ, Mitnick CD, Mukherjee J, Sloutsky A, Epino H, Stulac S, Drobac P, Farmer PE, Rich ML
East African Medical Journal. 2006.