… for the introduction of the Bangladesh or ‘shorter regimen’ to treat MDR-TB, the principles of
… their implementation under programmatic conditions in high MDR-TB prevalence settings. …

… the Bangladesh regimen, ie standardised shorter regimens. Our primary objective was to
estimate the probability of treatment success in MDR-TB patients treated with these regimens. …

… of longer duration, composed following WHO guidelines for the treatment of RR/MDR-TB.
Regimen definitions We defined shorter regimens as standardised regimens with an intended …

… systems of the shortened standardised regimen as proposed in the Bangladesh study (study
regimen) compared to the locally used WHO-approved MDR-TB (control regimen). The …

… “Bangladesh regimen”, a short regimen lasting nine months instead of 20 months,
revolutionized multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment. Similar short regimens were …

… TB requires up to 2 years of therapy, with expensive and toxic medicines, and adherence to
these medical regimens is … All data were collected onto standardised data collection forms …

… Bangladesh, a standardised short treatment regimen (STR) was highly effective in patients
diagnosed with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB… no prior treatment for RR-TB [1]. The …

… in Bangladesh which assessed a new shorter regimen using currently available TB drugs …
of a more acceptable and more effective regimen than the one recommended by the World …

… in the late 1940s, including standardised WHO Category II treatment. This finding calls
into question the usefulness of SM in empiric treatment regimens for retreatment patients or …

… This article provides the rationale to treat most of the existing TB cases using just three
standardised regimens. A summary of the three standardised regimens is available in table 3. …