Vol. 54 : No. 4

October 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

Banerji, 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

Extra pulmonary tuberculosis

-          V.K. Arora and K.K. Chopra

165

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Evaluation of an intermittent 6-month regimen in new pulmonary tuberculosis patients with diabetes mellitus

- Rani Balasubramanian, Usha Ramanathan,

K.Thyagarajan, Rajeswari Ramachandran,

K. Rajaram, D. Bhaskar, Shantharam,

R.S. Hariharan and P.R. Narayanan

168

Annual risk of tuberculous infection in Andhra Pradesh, India

- V.K. Chadha, P. Kumar, A.V.V. Satyanarayanan,

L.S. Chauhan, J. Gupta, S. Singh, V. Magesh,

Lakshminarayanan, J. Ahmed, R. Srivastava, P.

Suganthi and G. Uma Devi

177

Simple direct drug susceptibility tests on sputum samples for early detection of resistance in tubercle bacilli

- Sarah Mathew, S.M. Nalini, Fathima Rahman,

Aszhgar Dastageer, V. Sundaram and

C.N. Paramasivan

184

Status Report on RNTCP

190

CASE REPORTS

Tuberculosis presenting as Osteolytic soft tissue swelling of skull in HIV positive patient : A case report

- A.K. Tripathi, N. Gupta, M. Khanna, R. Ahmad and

P. Tripathi

193

Tuberculous brain abscess in a patient with HIV infection

- K. Kaushik, S. Karade, S. Kumar and K. Kapila

196

SHORT COMMUNICATION

Status of smear-positive TB patients at 2-3 years after initiation of treatment under a DOTS programme

- K. Sadacharam, P.G. Gopi, V. Chandrasekaran, S.I.

Eusuff, R. Subramani, T. Santha and P.R. Narayanan

199

Summaries of papers presented at the 61st National Conference on TB & Chest Diseases held in Udaipur (Rajasthan)

February 23-26, 2007

204

Forum

216

Abstracts

217

List of Reviewers

221