Costs incurred by patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis in semi-urban and rural settings of Western India

• Main Authors: Mihir P. Rupani (Author), Adithya Cattamanchi (Author), Priya B. Shete (Author), William M. Vollmer (Author), Sanjib Basu (Author), Jigna D. Dave (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background India reports the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide. Poverty has a dual impact as it increases the risk of TB and exposes the poor to economic hardship when they develop TB. Our objective was to estimate the costs incurred by patients with drug-susceptible TB in...