LRS Institute of TB & RD- IJTB

Registered with the Registrar of Newspapers of India under No. 655/57

Indian Journal of Tuberculosis

Published quarterly by the Tuberculosis Association of India, New Delhi

Vol. 55 : No. 2

April 2008

Editor-in-Chief

R.K. Srivastava

Editors

M.M. Singh

Lalit Kant

V.K. Arora

Joint Editors

G.R. Khatri

D. Behera

Associate Editors

S.K. Sharma

L.S. Chauhan

Ashok Shah

J.C. Suri

V.K. Dhingra

Assistant Editor

K.K. Chopra

Members

Banerji, D.

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

New Generation Methods for drug susceptibility testing for tuberculosis

– V. M. Katoch

Survival of tuberculosis patients treated under DOTS in a rural Tuberculosis Unit (TU), south India

- M . Vasantha, P. G. Gopi and R. Subramani

A Comparison of Conventional and Radiometric methods for the assessment of Anti-tubercular activity of drugs against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Mice and Macrophage models

- Sarbjit Singh Jhamb, Raman Preet Singh and

Prati Pal Singh

Increased yield of Smear Positive Pulmonary TB cases by screening patients with >2 weeks' cough, compared to >3 weeks and adequacy of 2 sputum smear examinations for diagnosis

- Aleyamma Thomas,V.Chandrasekaran, Pauline Joseph, Vijay Baskar Rao, A. B. Patil, D.K.Jain,Dutta Chowdhary, Saibabu, Sahana Mahapatra, Santha Devi, Fraser Wares and P.R. Narayanan