Recurrence of tuberculosis among newly diagnosed sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, India: A multi-centric prospective study.
Banurekha VelayuthamVineet Kumar ChadhaNeeta SinglaPratibha NarangVikas Gangadhar RaoSanjeev NairSrinivasan RamalingamGomathi Narayanan SivaramakrishnanBency JosephSriram SelvarajuShivakumar ShanmugamRahul NarangPraseeja PachikkaranJyothi BhatChinnaiyan PonnurajaBhoomika Bajaj BhallaBhadravathi Amarnath ShivashankaraGeorge SebastianRajiv YadavRavendra Kumar SharmaRohit SarinVithal Prasad MyneeduRupak SinglaKhalidumer KhayyamSunil Kumar MrithunjayanSubramonia Pillai JayasankarPraveen SankerKrishnaveni ViswanathanRajeevan ViswambharanKapil MathuriaManpreet BhallaNitu SinghKondeshvar Balaji TumaneAjay DawaleChandra Prakash TiwariRadhelal BansodLavanya JayabalLakshmi MuraliSunil D KhapardeRaghuram RaoMohideen S JawaharMohan NatrajanPublished in: PloS one (2018)
A substantial proportion of new smear positive PTB patients successfully treated with 6 -month thrice-weekly regimen have TB recurrence under program settings.