Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis among the tribal populations in India.
Beena E ThomasKannan ThiruvengadamChandrasekaran VedhachalamSrividya AV G RaoPaluru VijayachariYadav RajivRaghavi VAvi Kumar BansalAnil Kumar Indira KrishnaAlex JosephAnil Purty JTahziba HussainPraveen AnandPradeep DasK R JohnRekha Devi KSunish PAzhagendran SAzger DusthakeerBhat JVineet K ChadhaToteja G SDasarathy RaghunathMadhuchhanda DasA M KhanHapreet KaurPublished in: PloS one (2021)
The overall prevalence of PTB among tribal groups is higher than the general populations with a wide variation of prevalence of PTB among the tribal groups at zone and state levels. These findings call for strengthening of the TB control efforts in tribal areas to reduce TB prevalence through tribal community/site-specific intervention programs.