Risk factors for MDR and XDR-TB in a tertiary referral hospital in India.
BACKGROUND: India has a high burden of drug resistant TB, although there are few data on XDR-TB. Although XDR-TB has existed previously in India, the definition has not been widely applied, and surveillance using second line drug susceptibility testing has not been performed. Our objective was to an...
Main Authors: | V Balaji, Peter Daley, Alok Azad Anand, Thambu Sudarsanam, Joy Sarojini Michael, Rani Diana Sahni, Poorvi Chordia, Ige Abraham George, Kurien Thomas, Alka Ganesh, K R John, Dilip Mathai |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2832005?pdf=render |
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