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. 1

January 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

 

Limitations of conducting Community Surveys to assess

the epidemiological impact of TB Control Programme on the incidence of TB

-          Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai

 

 

 

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ORATION

 

Drug Resistant TB - RNTCP response

-          L. S. Chauhan

 

 

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

 

Perceptions of Gender and Tuberculosis in a South Indian

urban community

-          Sudha Ganapathy, Beena E. Thomas, M.S. Jawahar K. Josephine Arockia Selvi, Sivasubramanian and Mitchell Weiss

 

 

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Outcome of Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis cases treated

by individualized regimens at a tertiary level clinic

-          V.K. Dhingra, S. Rajpal, Anshu Mittal and M. Hanif

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Impact of improved treatment success on the prevalence of TB in a rural community based on active surveillance

-          P.G. Gopi, R. Subramani, V. Chandrasekaran, T. Santha and P.R. Narayanan

 

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Mycobacterial infections in Human Immuno-deficiency Virus Seropositive Patients : Role of Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria

-          Sonia Khatter, Urvashi B. Singh, J. Arora, T. Rana and P. Seth

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CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

 

Special considerations in the Design, Conduct and Analysis of  Prophylaxis Trials

-          S. Radhakrishna

 

 

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Planning a clinical trial! Please register before enrolling

-          Lalit Kant

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Status Report on RNTCP

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CASE REPORTS

 

Primary tuberculosis of Tonsil and Posterior Oropharyngeal Wall

-          A. Chakravarti, Swatilika Pal and J.K. Sahni

 

 

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Tuberculosis of Oral Cavity

-          Ramakant Dixit, Sidharth Sharma and Paras Nuwal

 

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Sixty second National Conference on Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases - A brief review

-          M.M. Singh, V.K. Dhingra and K.K. Chopra

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Abstracts

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