Early experience of delamanid in extensively drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death in our country. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis increases the morbidity and mortality due to severe manifestations and difficult and prolonged medications. Newer antitubercular drugs like delamanid have been approved by WHO in management of these cases, but the real-world experience of this drug is lacking in our country. We present our early experience of use of delamanid in extensively drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis.

Keywords

• delamanid
• extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
• sputum smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis