Study of drug resistance in pulmonary tuberculosis cases in south coastal Karnataka

• Main Authors: Parashuram Rao (Author), Kiran Chawla (Author), Vishnu Prasad Shenoy (Author), Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay (Author), Vishwanath Brahmavar (Author), Asha Kamath (Author), Aswini Kumar Mohapatra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Springer, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The present cross-sectional study was conducted for the first time from the Udupi district of coastal Karnataka to know the prevalence of drug resistance and comparative analysis of MDR and non-MDR cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. Details of 862 smear positive cases of pulmonary tuberculosis with ag...