The Potential Impact of Up-Front Drug Sensitivity Testing on India's Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.

The Potential Impact of Up-Front Drug Sensitivity Testing on India's Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.

<h4>Background</h4>In India as elsewhere, multi-drug resistance (MDR) poses a serious challenge in the control of tuberculosis (TB). The End TB strategy, recently approved by the world health assembly, aims to reduce TB deaths by 95% and new cases by 90% between 2015 and 2035. A key pill...

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Main Authors: Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Neeraj Raizada, Radhey Shyam Gupta, Sreenivas Achuthan Nair, Claudia Denkinger, Chinnambedu Nainarappan Paramasivan, Shubhangi Kulsange, Rahul Thakur, Puneet Dewan, Catharina Boehme, Nimalan Arinaminpathy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131438
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