Operational challenges in diagnosing multi-drug resistant TB and initiating treatment in Andhra Pradesh, India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Chadha, Sarabjit S ^a   BN, Sharath ^b   Reddy, Kishore ^c   Jaju, Jyothi ^b   PH, Vishnu ^c   Rao, Sreenivas ^d   Parmar, Malik ^b   Satyanarayana, Srinath ^a   Sachdeva, Kuldeep Singh ^e   Wilson, Nevin ^a   Harries, Anthony D ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c State TB Training and Demonstration Center   (India)

^d Government of Andhra Pradesh   (India)

^e GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPUTUM CULTURE; ARTICLE; MIDDLE AGED;

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 80355146162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026659     Document Type: Review

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