Socio-demographic Profile of Patients Registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in Pune City.
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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 Biomedical Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0976-9633
DOI: 10.7439/ijbr.v5i3.534