To the Editor—Three years after extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis was first described in 2006, Velayati et al [1] drew attention to the emergence of totally drug-resistant (TDR) tuberculosis in a cohort of 15 patients from Iran, resistant to all firstand second-line drugs. Since the first cases of XDR tuberculosis in India were reported from the P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and M...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE There is scarce information regarding TB associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection treated under routine program conditions in medical colleges of India. This study evaluates the clinical profile and outcome of TB-DOTS treatment by HIV status. METHODS Total two hundred and eighty TB patients registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Pro...

Introduction: India has the highest burden of tuberculosis in world, accounting for 20% of global incidence of TB (Tuberculosis). TB treatment is available both in private and public sector in India. Aim & objectives: The current study was carried out to study and compare the prescribing practices of antituberculosis medications by private practitioners and healthcare providers in public sector...

Introduction Tuberculosis in India: magnitude of the problem india, a country with over 1.21 billion people, has the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, accounting for 20% of the global incidence of TB, and an even higher share of global incidence of multi–drug resistant (MDR) TB (1). Thus the success of any global effort to control TB and MDR–TB is critically dependent on the suc...

Global Tuberculosis (TB) report (2013) has revealed that an estimated 8.6 million people developed TB of which, India accounts for almost 26% of the cases. These estimates clearly suggest that the country's efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goal 6 by 2015 have not delivered the desired output. In India, the TB prevention and control activities are supervised and implemented under the Re...

Background Pretreatment loss to follow-up (PTLFU) is used as performance indicator of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) of India. Objective To document the PTLFU, identify additional indicators and examine documentation of all the diagnosed sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients under RNTCP. Methodology Tuberculosis (TB) laboratory, referral for treatmen...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the blood levels, pharma-cokinetics and pharmacodynamic indices of pyrazinamide (PZA) in children suffering from tuberculosis, at doses administered under the weight band system of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program of India (RNTCP) of India. DESIGN Prospective, open-label, non-randomized single-dose study. SETTING 20 children in the age group 5-12 years at...

INTRODUCTION The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) aims to achieve detection of 70% of new smear-positive patients in a community and to cure 85% of such patients. Though an elaborate recording and reporting system is in place to monitor the success of the program, no record of patients who do not complete the diagnostic process is currently maintained. The present study, pe...

This paper presents an ontology based formalism of existing system for TB (Tuberculosis) control and management in India that is RNTCP (Revised National TB Control Programme). India in recent years has been highest TB burden country. There are some geographical areas of India which are badly affected by TB. The formalism presented in the paper will help in further investigation /research of a n...