Tuberculosis screening for pediatric household contacts in India: Time to adapt newer strategies under the National TB Elimination Programme!

Autor: Kiran Chawla, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja, Nayana Siddalingaiah, Chidananda Sanju, Uday Kumar, Vishnu Prasad Shenoy, Suresh Shastri, Anil Singarajipur

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 18, Iss 10, p e0292387 (2023)

IntroductionThe study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of screening pediatric household contacts (under the age of 15 years) for tuberculosis (TB) in India through verbal screening, tuberculin skin testing, and chest radiography at intervals of 0,

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Uptake of universal drug susceptibility testing among people with TB in a south Indian district: How are we faring?

Autor: Sharath Burugina Nagaraja, Anil Singarajipur, Rajani Ranganath, B V Peerapur, Abdul K Bahadur, Venkatesh Naik, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Ajay M. V. Kumar, Surendra Babu, N Somshekhar

Publikováno v: Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 116:43-49

Background India implements universal drug susceptibility testing (UDST) using rapid genotypic tests (cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test CBNAAT - and line probe assay - LPA). to bridge the gap of diagnosis of multidrug/rifampicin-resista

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https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab051

Challenges Perceived by Health Care Providers for Implementation of Contact Screening and Isoniazid Chemoprophylaxis in Karnataka, India

Autor: A. K. Das, Ramesh Chandra Reddy, Chidananda Sanju, Suresh Shastri, Kiran Chawla, Druti Hazra, Vishnu Prasad Shenoy, Nayana Siddalingaiah, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja, Anil Singarajipur, Uday Kumar

Publikováno v: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease; Volume 6; Issue 3; Pages: 167
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol 6, Iss 167, p 167 (2021)
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

Background: In India, challenges in pediatric TB contact screening and chemoprophylaxis initiation are still underexplored. Elucidating these challenges will help in better implementation of the programme at the grass-roots level thereby helping in e

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When Does Drug Resistant TB Strike HIV/TB Patients?—A South India Experience

Autor: Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Suresh Shastri, B B Rewari, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja, Anil Singarajipur

Publikováno v: World Journal of AIDS. :34-39

Background: India is a high TB (tuberculosis) burden country. The advent of HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) and DR-TB (drug resistant TB) has worsened the ongoing TB control efforts. A study was conducted to (a) to determine the duration for devel

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https://doi.org/10.4236/wja.2017.71004