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Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
Published quarterly by the Tuberculosis Association of India
Vol. 53 : No. 3 July 2006
Contents
Editor-in-Chief
R.K. Srivastava
Editors
Lalit Kant
M.M. Singh
V.K. Arora
Joint Editor
G.R. Khatri
Associate Editors
S.K. Sharma
L.S. Chauhan
Ashok Shah
J.C. Suri
Members
Banerjee, D.
Chopra, K.K.
Dhingra, V.K.
Frieden, Thomas, R.
Gupta, K.B.
Jain, N.K.
Katiyar, S.K.
Katoch, V.M.
Kumar, Prahlad
Narang, P.
Narayanan, P.R.
Nishi Agarwal
Paramasivan, C.N.
Puri, M.M.
Radhakrishna, S.
Rajendra Prasad
Raghunath, D.
Sarin, Rohit
Vijayan, V.K.
Wares, D.F.
Journal Coordinators
Kanwaljit Singh
R. Varadarajan
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EDITORIAL
Progress and Prospects of RNTCP
- Debabar Banerji 121
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Performance of a DOTS programme: Administrative and
Technical Challenges - A field report from a district in
south India
-P.G. Gopi, R. Subramani, T. Santha,
S.Radhakrishnan,V.Chandrasekaran,R.Rajeswari,
R. Balasubramanian, A.Thomas, M. Muniyandi and
P.R. Narayanan 123
Role of low Level Nitrogen Laser Therapy in chronic drug
resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis
-Ashok Bajpai, Salil Bhargava, Nageen Kumar Jain
and P.K. Gupta 135
Influence of drug susceptibility on treatment outcome and
susceptibility profile of failures to category II regimen
-Pauline Joseph, V. Chandrasekaran, A. Thomas,
P.G. Gopi, R. Rajeshwari, R. Balasubramanian,
R. Subramani, N. Selvakumar and T. Santha 141
Private sector involvement in Tuberculosis Control in
Chandigarh
-J.S. Thakur, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Alka Sehgal
and Rajesh Kumar 149
Status Report on RNTCP 154
CASE REPORTS
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome as a paradoxical
response to anti-tuberculosis and anti-retroviral therapy
-H.S. Subhash, S. Supriya, B. Prakash and K.Thomas 157
Tuberculosis in Pilonidal Sinus
-Sachin S.Baldawa, Chirag S.Desai and
Rajeev Satoskar 161
Summaries of papers presented at the 60th National
Conference on Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases held
in Lucknow, February 23-26, 2006 163
Book Review 175
Abstracts 176
Guidelines for Contributors 180
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