Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes of Retreatment Tuberculosis Patients in Benin

Table 5

Treatment outcomes of new pulmonary bacteriologically confirmed and retreatment tuberculosis patients, Benin, 2013.

	NPBCT	Retreatment TB	value
Total	3124	224
Successful outcome	2803 (89.7)	208 (92.9)	0.12
Cure	2587 (82.8)	184 (82.1)	0.79
Completion	216 (6.9)	24 (10.7)	0.03
Unsuccessful outcome	321 (10.3)	16 (7.1)	0.13
Failure	91 (2.9)	3 (1.3)	0.16
Death	170 (5.4)	9 (4)	0.37
Loss to follow-up	45 (1.4)	3 (1.3)	0.83
Not evaluated	15 (0.5)	1 (0.4)	0.72

Note: TB: tuberculosis.
NPBCT: new pulmonary bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis.
Of the 3129 new smear positive TB patients treated, treatment outcomes were assessed for 3124 patients in 2013.
Of the 241 retreatment tuberculosis patients treated, 18 were found multidrug resistant and did not continue the retreatment regimen.