1. Prevalence of multidrug resistance among retreatment pulmonary tuberculosis cases in a tertiary care hospital, Hyderabad, India
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Subhakar Kandi, Surapaneni Venkateswara Prasad, P Navaneeth Sagar Reddy, Vennaposa Chenna Kishore Reddy, Rajya Laxmi, Dhanamurthy Kopuu, Kiran Kumar Kondapaka, M S Sreenivas Rao, and P H Vishnu
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Category IV (category four) ,directly observed treatment ,short-course plus (DOTS plus) ,India ,multidrug resistant tuberculosis ,retreatment cases ,Diseases of the respiratory system ,RC705-779 - Abstract
Background: India is one of the high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries in the world. India ranks second in harboring multi drug resistant (MDR)-TB cases. About 50,000 of MDR cases are recorded in retreatment pulmonary TB cases. This study was conducted in a tertiary care facility (Government General and Chest Hospital) in Hyderabad, India. Objectives: Toassess: Proportion of the TB patients having MDR-TB at the initiation of retreatment regimen; the prevalence of isoniazid (INH) resistance in this geographical area. Materials and Methods: An analytical, observational, prospective cohort study of patients attending the out-patient department from December 2010 to March 2011. Results: Sputum samples from 100 patients were subjected to acid fast bacilli (AFB) culture and drug sensitivity testing. Of these, 28 (28%) were MDR-TB, 42 (42%) were non-MDR-TB and 39% being INH resistance. Conclusions: In conclusion, one third of the retreatment pulmonary TB cases attending a tertiary care institute for TB will be MDR-TB at the initiation of treatment and there is a need to include ethambutol in the continuation phase of new TB case treatment in view of high INH resistance.
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- 2013
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