Comparison of the validity of smear and culture conversion as a prognostic marker of treatment outcome in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

• Kefyalew Addis Alene ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kefyalew.alene@anu.edu.au

  Affiliations Research School of Population Health, College of Health and Medicine, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1904-4682

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• Kerri Viney,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research School of Population Health, College of Health and Medicine, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Hengzhong Yi,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of MDR-TB, Internal Medicine, Hunan Chest hospital, Changsha city, Hunan Province, China

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• Emma S. McBryde,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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• Kunyun Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of MDR-TB, Internal Medicine, Hunan Chest hospital, Changsha city, Hunan Province, China

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• Liqiong Bai,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Director's Office, Tuberculosis Control Institute of Hunan Province, Changsha city, Hunan Province, China

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• Darren J. Gray,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research School of Population Health, College of Health and Medicine, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Zuhui Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis Control, Tuberculosis Control Institute of Hunan Province, Changsha city, Hunan Province, China

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• Archie C. A. Clements

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research School of Population Health, College of Health and Medicine, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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