Recurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis in India: Findings from the 2019-2021 nationwide community-based TB prevalence survey.

Recurrent Tuberculosis patients contribute to a significant proportion of TB burden in India. A nationwide survey was conducted during 2019-2021 across India among adults to estimate the prevalence of TB. A total of 322480 individuals were screened and 1402 were having TB. Of this, 381 (27.1%) had r...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Prathiksha Giridharan, Sriram Selvaraju, Raghuram Rao, Kiran Rade, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Shanta Dutta, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Suman Sundar Mohanty, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Kamran Zaman, Rajendran Krishnan, Sivakumar Shanmugam, Nishant Kumar, Rajendra Panduranga Joshi, Somashekar Narasimhaiah, Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran, Raman R Gangakhedkar, Balram Bhargava
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294254&type=printable