Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (NLM title: Tuberc Respir Dis) is an international peer-review journal that published basic, translational, clinical research, and clinical practice guideline to promote women's health and prevent obstetric and gynecologic disorders.

Tuberc Respir Dis. 2025;88(1):150-158. Original Article Clinical Profiles of Multidrug-Resistant and Rifampicin-Monoresistant Tuberculosis in Korea, 2018–2021: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (NLM title: Tuberc Respir Dis) is an international peer-review journal that published basic, translational, clinical research, and clinical practice guideline to promote women's health and prevent obstetric and gynecologic disorders.

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6. Lee J, Lee SY, Choi KJ, Lim JK, Yoo SS, Lee SY, et al. Clinical Utility of CT-based bronchial aspirate TB-PCR for the rapid diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. Tuberc Respir Dis 2013;75:150-156.

In July 2004, the title was changed to Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (Tuberc Respir Dis, ISSN 1738-3536), with broad updates in the size and cover of the journal.

Tuberc Respir Dis 2024;87:415-439 https://e-trd.org 417 evidence). Question 9: Should an early tracheostomy be performed to successfully wean adult patients from mechanical ventilation? We recommend that early tracheostomy not be per-formed for patients expected to require prolonged mechanical ventilation (recommendation I, conditional

Tuberc Respir Dis 2024;87:411-413 https://e-trd.org/ 413 wills and achieving the goal of the second National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Control, which was to decrease tuberculosis incidence to less than 40 cases per 100,000 people by 2022. The political declaration adopted at the 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on tuber-

1. Kang HK, Song JW. Progressive pulmonary fibrosis: where are we now? Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul) 2024;87:123-33.

48 Tuberc Respir Dis 2015;78:47-55 www.e-trd.org Diagnosis 1. Mycobacterial stain and culture A definitive diagnosis of TB can only be made by culturing Mycobacterium tuberculosis organisms from a specimen ob-tained from the patient. However diagnosing EPTB remains challenging because clinical samples obtained from relatively