Clinical outcome of tubercular pleural effusion in patients treated under revised national tuberculosis control programme
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Study on outcome of the treatment of tuberculosis patients registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme – DOTS strategy
Background: India has the highest burden of TB in the world, an estimated 2 million cases annually. It is also estimated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that 300,000 people die from TB each year in India. Non-adherence to treatment has been recognized as a major problem for cure of TB. [5] Aims: To study the outcome of the treatment of tuberculosis patients under Directly Observed Treatm...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Advances in Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2349-3925
DOI: 10.18203/2349-3933.ijam20163717