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

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

BACKGROUND: Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP), Andhra Pradesh, India. There is limited information on whether MDR-TB suspects are identified, undergo diagnostic assessment and are initiated on treatment according to the programme guidelines. OBJECTIVES: To assess i) using the programme d...

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Main Authors: Sarabjit S Chadha, B N Sharath, Kishore Reddy, Jyothi Jaju, P H Vishnu, Sreenivas Rao, Malik Parmar, Srinath Satyanarayana, Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Nevin Wilson, Anthony D Harries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3206824?pdf=render

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