Attrition and delays before treatment initiation among patients with MDR-TB in China (2006-13): Magnitude and risk factors

• Caihong Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caihong Xu, Renzhong Li, Hemant Deepak Shewade

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, China Center for Disease Control (CDC), Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2926-2341

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• Renzhong Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caihong Xu, Renzhong Li, Hemant Deepak Shewade

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, China Center for Disease Control (CDC), Beijing, China

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• Hemant Deepak Shewade ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caihong Xu, Renzhong Li, Hemant Deepak Shewade

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

  Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South-East Asia Office, New Delhi, India, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France, Karuna Trust, Bengaluru, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8242-1911

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• Kathiresan Jeyashree,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Velammal Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Madurai, India

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• Yunzhou Ruan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, China Center for Disease Control (CDC), Beijing, China

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• Canyou Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, China Center for Disease Control (CDC), Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-5347

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• Lixia Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, China Center for Disease Control (CDC), Beijing, China

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• Hui Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhanghui@chinacdc.cn, huizhang1974@126.com

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, China Center for Disease Control (CDC), Beijing, China

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