Early treatment did not improve survival in tuberculous meningitis

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on January 13, 2016, shows that intensifying antituberculosis treatment did not improve the survival rate in patients with tuberculous meningitis. Dorothee Heemskirk, MD of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Centre for Tropical Medicine in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and colleagues completed the study.