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The most important outcome of tuberculosis (TB) treatment is nonrelapsing cure. Identification of predictors of relapse is useful for evaluating new drugs and treating patients. Relapse has been associated with a greater pretreatment sputum bacillary load, measured by sputum smear grade and numbers
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