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Indian Journal of Tuberculosis

Published quarterly by the Tuberculosis Association of India, New Delhi

Vol. 55 : No. 4	October 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 Subscription Inland Annual Rs.600 Single Copy Rs.150 Foreign For SAARC countries US $ 25 For South East Asian and Eastern countries US $ 30 Other countries US $ 35 Cheques/D.Ds. should be drawn in favourof "Tuberculosis Association of India, NewDelhi" The statements, opinions and advertisements contained in this journal are solely those of the authors/advertisers. The Publisher, Editor-in-Chief and its Editorial Board Members and employees disown all responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas or products referred to in the articles or advertisements contained in this journal.Chief and its Editorial Board Members and employees disown all responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas or products referred to in the articles or advertisements contained in this journal.	Contents EDITORIAL Relevance of Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in India - P. Narang ORIGINAL ARTICLES Psycho-social Dysfunction: Perceived and Enacted Stigma among tuberculosis patients registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme - K. Jaggarajamma, Rajeswari Ramachandran, Nirupa Charles, V. Chandrasekaran, M. Muniyandi and Sudha Ganapathy Study of relapse and failure cases of Cat I retreated with Cat II under RNTCP - An eleven year follow-up - R.K. Mehra, V.K. Dhingra, Aggarwal Nishi and R.P. Vashisht Screening of bulk drug samples and anti-tuberculosis products for the presence of therapeutically less active diasteriomeric (R,S) form of Ethambutol dihydrochloride - Bhagwat Prasad, Vijay Kumar, Hemant Bhutani and Saranjit Singh Treatment outcome of neuro-tuberculosis patients put on DOTS - An observation study from the field - K. Venugopal, P.R. Sreelatha, Sairu Philip and Vijay Kumar Lupus Vulgaris and Tuberculosis Verrucosa Cutis (TBVC) - A clinical, pathological and epidemiological study of 71 cases - L. Padmavathy, L. Lakshmana Rao, T.Pari, N. Ethirajan and B. Krishnaswamy Status Report on RNTCP	175 179 188 192 199 203 210
	CASE REPORTS Disseminated tuberculosis manifesting as Chronic Pancreatitis - R. Avasthi, S.C. Chaudhary and Piyush Jain Tubercular Hepatic abscess - A rare presentation - A.P. Kansal, Vishal Chopra, Harpreet Singh and Urvinderpal Singh First Joint International Conference of South-East Asia Region (The Union) and 63rd National Conference on Tuberculosis & Chest Diseases (SEAR-NATCON 2008) - The Tuberculosis Association of India Forum Abstracts List of Reviewers	214 217 221 224 231 234

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