First and second line drug resistance among treatment naïve pulmonary tuberculosis patients in a district under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in New Delhi
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Reasons for non-compliance among patients treated under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), Tiruvallur district, south India.
OBJECTIVES To elicit reasons for treatment default from a cohort of TB patients under RNTCP and their DOT providers. METHODS A total of 186 defaulters among the 938 patients registered during 3rd and 4th quarters of 1999 and 2001 in one Tuberculosis Unit (TU) of Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu and their DOT providers were included in the study. They were interviewed using a semi-structured in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2210-6014
DOI: 10.1016/j.jegh.2015.04.002