Risk factors for MDR and XDR-TB in a tertiary referral hospital in India.

Risk factors for MDR and XDR-TB in a tertiary referral hospital in India.

BACKGROUND: India has a high burden of drug resistant TB, although there are few data on XDR-TB. Although XDR-TB has existed previously in India, the definition has not been widely applied, and surveillance using second line drug susceptibility testing has not been performed. Our objective was to an...

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Main Authors: V Balaji, Peter Daley, Alok Azad Anand, Thambu Sudarsanam, Joy Sarojini Michael, Rani Diana Sahni, Poorvi Chordia, Ige Abraham George, Kurien Thomas, Alka Ganesh, K R John, Dilip Mathai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2832005?pdf=render

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