Tuberculosis is an infectious airborne, chronic granulomatous bacterial disease which
requires a prolonged treatment to get a complete cure and prevent death, relapse …

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a specific infectious disease caused by mycobacterium
tuberculosis affecting pulmonary and extra-pulmonary organs. Default is one of the …

Assess the knowledge and associated factors of DOTS defaulter among Tuberculosis clients
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Background: Defaulting from tuberculosis (TB) treatment has been one of the major
obstacles to treatment management and an important challenge for TB control …

Background: Tuberculosis remains a worldwide public health problem despite the fact that
highly effective drugs are available making TB a curable disease. DOTS chemotherapy …

Despite of the efforts of RNTCP and implementation of DOTS, there have been reports
regarding treatment default cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. The present study was done to …

Background: Compliance to therapy is one of the important factors that affect the outcome.
Non-compliance to self administered multi drug tuberculosis treatment regimens is an …

A retrospective case-control study was conducted to identify the sociodemographic and
treatment related risk factors predictive of treatment default among tuberculosis patients …

Background: Tuberculosis is a communicable disease requiring prolonged treatment. The
therapeutic regimens as recommended by WHO have been shown to be highly effective for …

Background: Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a rising peril of the TB control in India
caused mostly by incomplete treatment. Aim: The aim was to assess the treatment …