Open AccessDiagnosis and Management of Osteoarticular Tuberculosis: A Drastic Change in Mind Set Needed—It is Not Enough to Simply Diagnose TB
Author(s) -
Vikas Agashe,
Camilla Rodrigues,
Rajiv Soman,
Anjali Shetty,
Ramesh Deshpande,
Kanchan Ajbani,
Jitendra Pingle,
Mandar Agashe,
Hitendra G. Patil,
Sagar Raghuwanshi,
Manit K. Gundavda,
Raju Gite,
Mithun Shriniwas Jakkan,
Amit Mishra,
Aditya Me
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.1007/s43465-020-00202-7
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , pulmonary tuberculosis , drug resistance , incidence (geometry) , first line , surgery , pediatrics , pathology , physics , optics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
In the era of increasing drug resistance in pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), it is prudent to assess causes of poor response to anti tubercular therapy (ATT) and drug sensitivity pattern (DSP) in osteoarticular TB.