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

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. OBJECTIVES: To determine the increment...

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Autores principales: Nagaraja, Sharath Burugina, Kumar, Ajay M. V., Sachdeva, Kuldeep Singh, Ramachandran, Ranjani, Satyanarayana, Srinath, Bansal, Avi, Parmar, Malik, Chadha, Sarabjit, Nair, Sreenivas, Kumar, Ashok, Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund, Edginton, Mary, Dewan, Puneet K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3459961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045554

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3459961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045554

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