Publications by authors named "Sunil Vijay"
Background: India is determined to eliminate TB by 2025 despite being a high burden country. Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) is being strengthened with introduction of Universal Drug Susceptibility Testing (UDST) for Rifampicin to achieve the elimination status.
Methodology: We used a before-after comparison of baseline and intervention periods (12 months each) and analyzed data viz CBNAAT performed and case detection for both drug sensitive and drug resistant TB cases.
Aim: To find out the prevalence of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (LRTI) such as bacterial, fungal, mycobacterial infections etc. in patients with productive cough of duration less than 15 days and to rule out the patients having previous history of tuberculosis or having treatment of tuberculosis.
Materials And Methods: Outdoor and Indoor patients of Department of Medicine and Chest & TB, SRG hospital and Jhalawar Medical College, Jhalawar were included.