a study on isolation characterization and detection of drug resistant pattern of mycobacterium tuberculosis in pulmonary tuberculosis cases attending tertiary care hospital

Abstract

AIM newlineA study on isolation, characterization and detection of drug newlineresistant pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in pulmonary newlinetuberculosis cases attending tertiary care hospital. newlineOBJECTIVES newline To identify the Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum newlinesamples based on staining, culture and biochemical methods. newline To perform anti-tuberculosis drug susceptibility tests using newlinephenotypic methods. newline To confirm the drug resistance among the isolated organism newlineusing genotypic methods. newline To know the prevalence of drug-resistant organisms in a newlinetertiary care hospital newline