Has introduction of rapid drug susceptibility testing at diagnosis impacted treatment outcomes among previously treated tuberculosis patients in Gujarat, India?

Has introduction of rapid drug susceptibility testing at diagnosis impacted treatment outcomes among previously treated tuberculosis patients in Gujarat, India?

BACKGROUND:Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) in India recommends that all previously-treated TB (PT) patients are offered drug susceptibility testing (DST) at diagnosis, using rapid diagnostics and screened out for rifampicin resistance before being treated with standardized, eight-month...

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Main Authors: Paresh Dave, Bhavin Vadera, Ajay M V Kumar, Palanivel Chinnakali, Bhavesh Modi, Rajesh Solanki, Pranav Patel, Prakash Patel, Kirit Pujara, Pankaj Nimavat, Amar Shah, Sandeep Bharaswadkar, Kiran Rade, Malik Parmar, Sreenivas Achuthan Nair
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4395327?pdf=render

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