A 55-year-old man from rural India is diagnosed with pulmonary TB. He completes 6 months of standard RIPE treatment. His end-of-treatment sputum cultu...

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A 55-year-old man from rural India is diagnosed with pulmonary TB. He completes 6 months of standard RIPE treatment. His end-of-treatment sputum culture is negative. Six months after completing treatment, he develops new cough and weight loss. Sputum is again ZN-positive. What term describes this situation?

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Relapse - bacteriologically confirmed recurrence of TB after documented treatment completion and initial cure

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Treatment failure

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New episode in a patient who was never treated

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Chronic TB

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Latent TB reactivation

uk-dtmh MCQ (SBA): TB Relapse Definition