ERS/WHO Tuberculosis Consilium assistance with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis management in a child: case study of compassionate delamanid use

Affiliations

• ¹ Pediatric Highly Intensive Care Unit, Dept of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy These authors contributed equally.
• ² World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Tradate, Italy These authors contributed equally.
• ³ Section of Infectious Diseases, Dept of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy These authors contributed equally.
• ⁴ Desmond Tutu Tuberculosis Centre, Dept of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁵ Dept of Pneumology, Hospital General de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain.
• ⁶ Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, and Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ⁷ World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Tradate, Italy.
• ⁸ World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁹ Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, WHO Collaborating Centre for TB/HIV co-infection and TB elimination, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Dipartimento Fisiopatologia Medico-Chirurgica e dei Trapianti, University of Milan, IRCCS Fondazione Cà Granda, Milan, Italy.
• ¹¹ World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Tradate, Italy [email protected].