Open AccessSocioepidemiological status and clinical outcome of MDR TB patients in a tertiary medical college in Southern Odisha
Author(s) -
BibhuPrasad Behera,
Manoranjan Dash
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1015_21
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , incidence (geometry) , observational study , retrospective cohort study , extrapulmonary tuberculosis , liver enzyme , pediatrics , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology , physics , optics
India accounts for one-fourth of the global TB burden. The load of drug-resistant TB is of foremost attention and concern at international, regional, and national levels. As per estimates of TB burden in India in 2018, the MDR/RR-TB incidence was 1.30 lakhs.