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Private practitioners:How can private practitioners in India support and encourage governmental efforts on tuberculosis control?What schemes are available
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Slide show on DOTS

Prevalence figures of TB in India

Indian Journal of tuberculosis

Abstracts from April 2008
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Editorial:New generation methods for drug susceptibjility testing for tubserculosis

Survival of tuberculosis patients treated under DOTS in a rural Tuberculosis Unit(TU),south India
A comparison of conventional and radiometric methods for the assessment of anti-tubercular activity of drugs against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in mice and macrophage models.

Increased yield of smear positive pulmonary TB cases by screening of patients with 2 and more months of cough ,compared to 3 and more weeks and adequacy of 2 sputum smear examinations for diagnosis
Clinico radiological profile of new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases among young adult and elderly people in tertiary care hospital at Dehadun (UttarKhand)
Status report on RNTCP

Case reports

Accidental Isoniazid poisoning -A report
Psoriasiform Lupus Vulgaris

Obstructing mass lesion of epiglottis

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Rapid Direct Detection and Susceptibility Testing of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex for Isoniazid and Rifampin in Smear Positive Clinical Specimens by the PCR-based Genotype MTBDR Assay.

Rifapentine for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis

An official ATS statement: hepatotoxicity of antituberculosis therapy.

Detection of Multi-Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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