Totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB) in India: Every dark cloud has a silver lining

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 471-472

  Udwadia, Zarir ^a   Vendoti, Deepesh ^b  

^a P D HINDUJA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Public Health Professional   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; EXTENSIVELY DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL HLTH; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICATION ERROR; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; TUBERCULOSIS;

INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL HLTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COST OF ILLNESS; EXTENSIVELY DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICATION ERRORS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 84880141477     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2012-201640     Document Type: Editorial

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