Patient who has never had treatment for tuberculosis or who has taken anti-tuberculosis drugs for less than one month

Patients who have never received antituberculosis treatment, or who have received treatment for less than one month. This includes patients who had DST at the start of a Category 1 regimen and are then switched to a Category 4 regimen because of resistance

Patient who has received no or less than one month of antituberculosis treatment. Patients are placed in this group if they had sputum collected for DST at the start of a Category I regimen and were then switched to a Category IV regimen because MDR-TB was later confirmed. They should be considered “new” if DST was performed within one month of the start of treatment (even if they had received more than one month of Category I treatment by the time the results of DST returned and they were registered as Category IV)

Patient who has never had treatment for tuberculosis or who has taken antituberculosis drugs for less than one month

Person who has never been treated previously or was treated for less than 1 month

Newly registered episode of TB in a patient who has never been treated for TB or has taken anti-TB medicines for less than 1 month

Newly registered episode of TB in a patient who, in response to direct questioning, denies having had any prior anti-TB treatment (for less than one month), and in countries where adequate documentation is available, for whom there is no evidence of such history.

Patient who have no history of prior TB treatment or who received less than 1 month of anti-TB drugs (regardless of whether their smear or culture results are positive or not)

Patients who have never been treated for TB or have taken anti-TB drugs for less than 1 month