Drug-resistant tuberculosis clinical trials: proposed core research definitions in adults

Keywords: definitions; drug-resistant tuberculosis; research

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: TB Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Room E-202, 2210 Circle Dr, Cleveland, OH 44149, USA. [email protected] 2: Manson Unit Médicins Sans Frontières, London, UK 3: Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK 4: Department of Infection and Population Health, University College of London, London, UK 5: Statistical and Data Analysis Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6: Institutes of Infection and Global Health and of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 7: Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa 8: Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa 9: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 10: Tuberculosis Foundation, KNCV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 11: Pathology and Microbiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA 12: Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, New York, New York, USA 13: Sequella, Rockville, Maryland, USA 14: TB Unit, University of Limpopo, Sovenga, South Africa 15: Department of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 16: Otsuka USA, Rockville, Maryland, USA 17: TB Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 18: Treatment Action Group, New York City, New York, USA 19: Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 20: Stop TB Partnership & Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 21: Medical Service Corp International, Arlington, Virginia, USA 22: Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 23: Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA 24: Curry International Tuberculosis Center, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 25: Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, London, UK 26: Department of Respiratory Medicine, P D Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Publication date: 01 March 2016