Assessment Of Long-Term Outcome Among New Smear Positive Pulmonary TB Patients Treated with Intermittent Regimen Under RNTCP - A Retrospective Cohort Study

• Main Authors: Paresh Dave (Author), Kiran Rade (Author), Bhavesh Modi (Author), Rajesh Solanki (Author), Pradip Patel (Author), Amar Shah (Author), Bhavin Vadera (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medsci Publications, 2013-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Under the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) of India, treatment of TB is given as thrice weekly regimen following WHO recommended DOTS strategy and the success of treatment is largely declared based on completeness and bacteriological conversion. Once the patient is declared...