At this time, a first set of guidelines was developed to assist national tuberculosis control programs in conducting anti-tuberculosis drug resistance surveys [ 9].
Additionally, 13 focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted with tuberculosis (TB) and diabetic patients, CHWs, laboratory technicians, TB program staff and medical officers at primary care clinics, and with hospital nurses, all of which were selected on a convenience basis to represent the different settings.
The Multicentre Project for Tuberculosis Research (MPTR) was a clinical-epidemiological study conducted into tuberculosis (TB) in Spain during the period, 1996 1998.
A community-based HIV prevalence survey was conducted among tuberculosis patients treated by the national tuberculosis control programme to evaluate the HIV prevalence among tuberculosis patients in India.
We conducted a tuberculosis contact investigation for a female military recruit with an unreported history of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) and subsequent recurrence.
Furthermore, conducting interviews with tuberculosis (TB) patients in Tajikistan, Ayé et al. collected information on medical and non-medical expenditures, as well as loss of income.
To illustrate the performance of drug-resistance surveys conducted during tuberculosis epidemics, we compare the estimated burden of drug resistance obtained from incidence-based surveys to the actual proportion of drug resistance among (i) incident and (ii) prevalent cases of disease as drug resistant TB emerges in the population.
A cross sectional study was conducted among tuberculosis patients who were getting their drugs from the clinics operational in Ndola, Zambia by the Ndola District Health Management Board.
Institution based cross-sectional study was conducted on tuberculosis patients at DOTS in public health facilities from January to April, 2013.
In this case-control study, conducted in tuberculosis patients and normal controls recruited from Northern India, we focused on potential functional polymorphisms in the transcriptional region of TNFA and a LTA_NcoI (+252) polymorphism in the first intron of LTA gene a few of which have earlier been associated with TNF-α levels [ 15, 16].
