Indicators to ensure treatment initiation of all diagnosed sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients under tuberculosis control programme in India by Lavanya Jayabal, Asha Frederick, Sanjay Mehendale, Velayutham Banurekha

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A social networks-driven approach to understand the unique alcohol mixing patterns of tuberculosis patients: reporting methods and findings from a high TB-burden setting by Karikalan Nagarajan, Bharathidasan Palani, Javeed Basha, Lavanya Jayabal, Malaisamy Muniyandi

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Drug susceptibility profiling of pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii and its correlation with treatment outcome by Priya Rajendran, Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarsini, Vaishnavee Vijayaraghavan, Tamizhselvan Manoharan, Lakshana Malla Lokanathan, Parveen Banu Kadhar, Lavanya Jayabal, Gomathy Sivaramakrishnan

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Perceptions of Private Medical Practitioners on Tuberculosis Notification: A Study from Chennai, South India. by Beena Elizabeth Thomas, Banurekha Velayutham, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Dina Nair, Sukendu Bikas Barman, Lavanya Jayabal, Senthanro Ovung, Soumya Swaminathan

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The impact of chest radiography and Xpert MTB/RIF testing among household contacts in Chennai, India. by Ramya Ananthakrishnan, Rajeswaran Thiagesan, Sheela Auguesteen, Nalini Karunakaran, Lavanya Jayabal, Jagadeesan M, Robert Stevens, Andrew Codlin, Jacob Creswell

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Tuberculosis screening in household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in an urban setting. by Banurekha Velayutham, Lavanya Jayabal, Basilea Watson, Saraswathy Jagadeesan, Dhanalakshmi Angamuthu, Priscilla Rebecca, Bella Devaleenal, Dina Nair, Srikanth Tripathy, Sriram Selvaraju

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Status of universal drug susceptibility testing in pulmonary tuberculosis patients initiated on treatment in an Urban setting, South India by Banurekha Velayutham, Lavanya Jayabal, Basilea Watson, Saraswathy Jagadeesan, Chandra Suresh, Dina Nair, Radha Gopalaswamy, Bella Devaleenal, Sriram Selvaraju, Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarsini

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An influence of dew point temperature on the occurrence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in Chennai, India by Rajendran Krishnan, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Lavanya Jayabal, Sriram Selvaraju, Basilea Watson, Muniyandi Malaisamy, Karikalan Nagarajan, Srikanth P. Tripathy, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran

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Genotype MTBDRsl version 2 and phenotypic drug resistance detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides by Ramalingam Radhakrishnan, S Prabuseenivasan, S Hannah, V Vaishanavee, V Senthildevi, T Kannadhasan, R Suchithra, Priya Rajendran, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, Lavanya Jayabal, Asha Frederick, Sivakumar Shanmugam

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The Usefulness and Feasibility of Mobile Interface in Tuberculosis Notification (MITUN) Voice Based System for Notification of Tuberculosis by Private Medical Practitioners--A Pilo... by Banurekha Velayutham, Beena Thomas, Dina Nair, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Suma Prashant, Sathyapriya Kittusami, Harivanzan Vijayakumar, Meenachi Chidambaram, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, Lavanya Jayabal, Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Soumya Swaminathan

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Plasma chemokines CXCL10 and CXCL9 as potential diagnostic markers of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant tuberculosis by Pavithra Sampath, Anuradha Rajamanickam, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Alangudi Palaniappan Natarajan, Syed Hissar, Madhavan Dhanapal, Bharathiraja Thangavelu, Lavanya Jayabal, Paranchi Murugesan Ramesh, Uma Devi Ranganathan, Subash Babu, Ramalingam Bethunaickan

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Cytokine upsurge among drug-resistant tuberculosis endorse the signatures of hyper inflammation and disease severity by Pavithra Sampath, Anuradha Rajamanickam, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Alangudi Palaniappan Natarajan, Syed Hissar, Madhavan Dhanapal, Bharathiraja Thangavelu, Lavanya Jayabal, Paranchi Murugesan Ramesh, Uma Devi Ranganathan, Subash Babu, Ramalingam Bethunaickan

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Tuberculosis patients in an Indian mega-city: Where do they live and where are they diagnosed? by Ramnath Subbaraman, Beena E Thomas, Senthil Sellappan, Chandra Suresh, Lavanya Jayabal, Savari Lincy, Agnes L Raja, Allison McFall, Sunil Suhas Solomon, Kenneth H Mayer, Soumya Swaminathan

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Correction: Tuberculosis patients in an Indian mega-city: Where do they live and where are they diagnosed? by Ramnath Subbaraman, Beena E Thomas, Senthil Sellappan, Chandra Suresh, Lavanya Jayabal, Savari Lincy, Agnes L Raja, Allison McFall, Sunil Suhas Solomon, Kenneth H Mayer, Soumya Swaminathan

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Differential Frequencies of Intermediate Monocyte Subsets Among Individuals Infected With Drug-Sensitive or Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Pavithra Sampath, Alangudi Palaniappan Natarajan, Kadar Moideen, Gokul Raj Kathamuthu, Syed Hissar, Madhavan Dhanapal, Lavanya Jayabal, Paranchi Murugesan Ramesh, Srikanth Prasad Tripathy, Uma Devi Ranganathan, Subash Babu, Ramalingam Bethunaickan

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Measuring tuberculosis patient perceived quality of care in public and public–private mix settings in India: an instrument development and validation study by Karikalan Nagarajan, Beena E Thomas, Ramya Ananthakrishnan, Basilea Watson, Sudha Rani, Jagadeesan Murugesan, Murugesan Periyasamy, Deepalakshmi A, Vignesh Kumar J, Stephen A, Lavanya Jayabal, Tiju Thomas, Sumathi G N

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Resistance Profiles to Second-Line Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs and Their Treatment Outcomes: A Three-Year Retrospective Analysis from South India by Radha Gopalaswamy, Nandhini Palani, Dinesh Viswanathan, Bershila Preysingh, Suchithra Rajendran, Vaishnavee Vijayaraghavan, Kannadasan Thangavel, Senthil Devi Vadivel, Hannah Stanley, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Lavanya Jayabal, Kaleeswari Murugesan, Sridhar Rathinam, Asha Frederick, Gomathi Sivaramakrishnan, Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarsini, Sivakumar Shanmugam

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Whole-Genome Sequencing to Identify Missed Rifampicin and Isoniazid Resistance Among Tuberculosis Isolates—Chennai, India, 2013–2016 by Sembulingam Tamilzhalagan, Sivakumar Shanmugam, Ashok Selvaraj, Sakthi Suba, Chittibabu Suganthi, Patrick K. Moonan, Diya Surie, Mukesh Kumar Sathyanarayanan, Narayanan Shivaram Gomathi, Lavanya Jayabal, Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Sriram Selvaraju, Soumya Swaminathan, Soumya Swaminathan, Srikanth Prasad Tripathy, Patricia J. Hall, Uma Devi Ranganathan

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Efficacy and tolerability of a 4-month ofloxacin-containing regimen compared to a 6-month regimen in the treatment of patients with superficial lymph node tuberculosis: a randomize... by Syed Hissar, Banurekha Velayutham, Manoharan Tamizhselvan, Sridhar Rathinam, Chinnadurai Arunbabu, Jayanthi Bharathi Vidhya, Gurusamy Vargunapandian, Anandakrishnan Sundararajaperumal, Gomathi Narayan Sivaramakrishnan, Silambu Chelvi, Paranchi Murugesan Ramesh, Damodharan Arun, Sirasanambati Devarajulu Reddy, Paramasivam Paul Kumaran, Marimuthu Makesh Kumar, Dharuman Kalaiselvi, Luke Elizabeth Hanna, Hemanth Kumar, Alagarsamy Gowrisankar, Ramasamy Rajavelu, Lavanya Jayabal, Chinnayan Ponnuraja, Dhanaraj Baskaran

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