First and second line drug resistance among treatment naïve pulmonary tuberculosis patients in a district under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in New Delhi

• Main Authors: Vithal Prasad Myneedu (Author), Ritu Singhal (Author), Khalid Umer Khayyam (Author), Prem Prakash Sharma (Author), Manpreet Bhalla (Author), Digamber Behera (Author), Rohit Sarin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Springer, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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There is limited information of level of drug resistance to first-line and second line anti-tuberculosis agents in treatment naïve pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients from the Indian region. Therefore, the present prospective study was conducted to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility to fi...