Vol. 54 : No. 3

July 2007

Editor-in-Chief

R.K. Srivastava

Editors

M.M. Singh

Lalit Kant

V.K. Arora

Joint Editor

G.R. Khatri

Associate Editors

S.K. Sharma

L.S. Chauhan

Ashok Shah

J.C. Suri

Members

Banerjee, D.

Behera, D

Chopra, K.K.

Dhingra, V.K.

Frieden, Thomas, R.

Gupta, K.B.

Katiyar, S.K.

Katoch, V.M.

Kumar, Prahlad

Narang, P.

Narayanan, P.R.

Nishi Agarwal

Puri, M.M.

Radhakrishna, S.

Raghunath, D.

Rai, S.P.

Rajendra Prasad

Sarin, Rohit

Vijayan, V.K.

Wares, D.F.

Journal Coordinators

Kanwaljit Singh

R. Varadarajan

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Contents

EDITORIAL

Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in India - Is it a matter of concern?

- D. Behera

105

ORATION

MDR-TB - interventional Strategy

- Rohit Sarin

110

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Management of Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis in the field: Tuberculosis Research Centre Experience.

- Aleyamma Thomas, Rajeswari Ramachandran,

Fathima Rehaman, K. Jaggarajamma, T. Santa,

N. Selvakumar, Nalini Krishnan, Nalini Sunder Mohan

V. Sundaram, Fraser Wares and P.R. Narayanan

117

Isolation and analysis of Circulating Tuberculous Antigens in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

- Niraj Shende, Sonika Gupta, Vijay Upadhye, Satish

Kumar and Bhaskar C. Harinath

125

Reasons for non-compliance among patients treated under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), Tiruvallur District, South India

- K. Jaggarajamma, G. Sudha, V. Chandrasekaran,

C. Nirupa, A. Thomas, T. Santha, M. Muniyandi and

P.R. Narayanan

130

Status Report on RNTCP

136

Panel Discussion on RNTCP Implementation - Problems and Solutions

140

CASE REPORTS

Tuberculosis Verrucosa Cutis (TBVC) - Foot with Miliary Tuberculosis

- L. Padmavathy, L. Lakshmana Rao., N. Ethirajan,

M. Ramakrishna Rao, E.N. Subrahmanyan and

U. Manohar

145

Isolated Tubercular Liver Abscess in children treated with Percutaneous Isoniazid Infusion

- Pinakik R. Debnath, Rakesh Tripathi, Deepak Kandpall,

Basant Kumar, Ekta Malik and Shyam B. Sharma

149

SHORT COMMUNICATION

Comparison of Tuberculin Reaction sizes at 48 and 72 hours among children in Tiruvallur District, South India

- P.G. Gopi, M. Vasantha, C. Kolappan and P.R. Narayanan

152

Forum

157

Abstracts

158

Guidelines for Contributors

161