Is One Sputum Specimen as Good as Two during Follow-Up Cultures for Monitoring Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in India?

Sharath Burugina Nagaraja,Ajay Kumar,Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva,Ranjani Ramachandran,Srinath Satyanarayana,Avi Kumar Bansal,Malik Parmar,Sarabjit Chadha,Sreenivas Achuthan Nair,Ashok Kumar,Sven Gudmund Hinderaker,M. E. Edginton,Puneet Dewan

Is One Sputum Specimen as Good as Two during Follow-Up Cultures for Monitoring Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in India?

2012

Sharath Burugina Nagaraja
Ajay Kumar
Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva
Ranjani Ramachandran
Srinath Satyanarayana
Avi Kumar Bansal
Malik Parmar
Sarabjit Chadha
Sreenivas Achuthan Nair
Ashok Kumar
Sven Gudmund Hinderaker
M. E. Edginton
Puneet Dewan

Background In India, the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) has adopted the strategy of examining two specimens during follow-up culture examinations to monitor the treatment response of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients.

Keywords:

Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Sputum specimen
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis
Neglected tropical diseases
Tuberculosis
Sputum
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Surgery
Internal medicine
Medicine
tuberculosis control
Pharmacotherapy

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