Children deserve simple, short, safe, and effective treatment for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA; Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. Electronic address: garciaprats@wisc.edu.
• ² Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ³ Clinical HIV Research Unit, Sizwe Tropical Disease Hospital, Wits Health Consortium, Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ⁴ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Frontier Science Foundation, Brookline, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁷ Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Pharmacy, Research Institute for Medical Innovation, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.