Predictors of slow clinical response and extended treatment in patients with extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in Pakistan, A hospital-based prospective study

• Atiqa Ambreen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), The University of Lahore, Defence Road Campus, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Sabira Tahseen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National TB Reference Laboratory, National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan, The Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6887-8149

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• Ahmad Wali,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• Muhammad Jamil,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis and Chest Medicine, Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Syed Zeeshan Haider Naqvi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), The University of Lahore, Defence Road Campus, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Nauman Safdar,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Social and Health Inequalities Network (SHINe), a not for Profit, Non-Government Organization, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Tehmina Mustafa

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

  * E-mail: tehmina.mustafa@uib.no

  Affiliations The Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Thoracic medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-1191

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