Unacceptable treatment outcomes and associated factors among India's initial cohorts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients under the revised national TB control programme (2007–2011): Evidence leading to policy enhancement

Malik M. Parmar; Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva; Puneet K. Dewan; Kiran Rade; Sreenivas A. Nair; Rashmi Pant; Sunil D. Khaparde

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193903

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Unacceptable treatment outcomes and associated factors among India's initial cohorts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients under the revised national TB control programme (2007–2011): Evidence leading to policy enhancement

Malik M. Parmar ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: parmarm@who.int

Affiliation World Health Organization–Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7249-938X

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Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National AIDS Control Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India
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Puneet K. Dewan,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, India Country Office, New Delhi, India
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Kiran Rade,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization–Country Office for India, New Delhi, India
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Sreenivas A. Nair,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization–Country Office for India, New Delhi, India
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Rashmi Pant,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Foundation of India, Hyderabad, India
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Sunil D. Khaparde

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India
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Unacceptable treatment outcomes and associated factors among India's initial cohorts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients under the revised national TB control programme (2007–2011): Evidence leading to policy enhancement

Malik M. Parmar,
Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva,
Puneet K. Dewan,
Kiran Rade,
Sreenivas A. Nair,
Rashmi Pant,
Sunil D. Khaparde

Published: April 11, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193903

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