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Percent of New TB Patients with Rifampicin Monoresistance

References in the content below refer to the PBMEF Guide.

Definitions

Number of patients with resistance to rifampicin only, out of total number of new bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB patients with available drug-susceptibility testing results for isoniazid and rifampicin, expressed as percentage.

Numerator

Number of patients with rifampicin monoresistance (resistance to rifampicin only). WHO database: rr_new minus mdr_new .

Denominator

Number of previously treated (including relapse) bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB patients with available drug- susceptibility testing results for isoniazid and rifampicin. WHO database: dst_rlt_ret

Ref #

(Previously DT-18)

Tier Level

Extended Indicator

Data Type

Percentage

Disaggregations

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