Recurrence of tuberculosis among newly diagnosed sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, India: A multi-centric prospective study.

INTRODUCTION:There is lack of information on the proportion of new smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients treated with a 6-month thrice-weekly regimen under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) who develop recurrent TB after successful treatment outcome. OBJECTIVE:To...

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Main Authors: Banurekha Velayutham, Vineet Kumar Chadha, Neeta Singla, Pratibha Narang, Vikas Gangadhar Rao, Sanjeev Nair, Srinivasan Ramalingam, Gomathi Narayanan Sivaramakrishnan, Bency Joseph, Sriram Selvaraju, Shivakumar Shanmugam, Rahul Narang, Praseeja Pachikkaran, Jyothi Bhat, Chinnaiyan Ponnuraja, Bhoomika Bajaj Bhalla, Bhadravathi Amarnath Shivashankara, George Sebastian, Rajiv Yadav, Ravendra Kumar Sharma, Rohit Sarin, Vithal Prasad Myneedu, Rupak Singla, Khalidumer Khayyam, Sunil Kumar Mrithunjayan, Subramonia Pillai Jayasankar, Praveen Sanker, Krishnaveni Viswanathan, Rajeevan Viswambharan, Kapil Mathuria, Manpreet Bhalla, Nitu Singh, Kondeshvar Balaji Tumane, Ajay Dawale, Chandra Prakash Tiwari, Radhelal Bansod, Lavanya Jayabal, Lakshmi Murali, Sunil D Khaparde, Raghuram Rao, Mohideen S Jawahar, Mohan Natrajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6034867?pdf=render