BACKGROUND: While Indian studies have assessed care providers' knowledge and
practices, there is no systematic review on the quality of tuberculosis (TB) care. METHODS …

Point-of-Care Testing for Infectious Diseases: Diversity, Complexity, and Barriers in Low-
And Middle-Income Countries | PLOS Medicine Skip to main content Advertisement PLOS …

Abbreviations: gyrA, gyrase subunit A; inhA, enoyl subunit A; katG, catalase peroxidise
gene; rpob, RNA polymerase b subunit; rrs, 16S ribosomal RNA. a The first-and second-line …

Background Existing studies of the quality of tuberculosis care have relied on recall-based
patient surveys, questionnaire surveys of knowledge, and prescription or medical record …

Tuberculosis (TB) researchers and clinicians, by virtue of the social disease they study, are
drawn into an engagement with ways of understanding illness that extend beyond the strictly …

Background Significant adverse events (AE) have been reported in patients receiving
medications for multidrug-and extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB & XDR-TB) …

Thorax: first published as 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-201663 on 16 March 2012. Downloaded
from resistance report estimating that India with its 110 132 cases in 2006 represented 20 …

Background While the high burden of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) itself is a
matter of great concern, the emergence and rise of advanced forms of drug-resistance such …

Background India carries one quarter of the global burden of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-
TB) and has an estimated 2.5 million people living with HIV. Despite this reality, provision of …

Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a looming threat to tuberculosis control
in India. However, no countrywide prevalence data are available. The burden of DR-TB in …