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abstract: 'Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. An emerging menace in India is drug resistant forms of TB. In order to ensure proper TB diagnosis and case management, reduce TB transmission and address the problems of emergence of spread of Drug Resistant-TB, it is essential to have complete information of all TB cases. Therefore, Govt. of India declared Tuberculosis a notifiable disease on 7th May 2012. This paper highlights the fact that notification of TB in the absence of regulation of diagnostic practices, rational use of anti-TB medicines and availability of diagnostic and treatment facilities for drug-resistant TB will pose more problems rather than provide solutions to this problem.'
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  - family: Nagpal
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  - family: Chawla
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date: 2013-08-25
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keywords: Tuberculosis; Drug resistance; Notification
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publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
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referencetext: "1.\tCentral TB Division, MOH&FW. Guidance for TB notification in India 2012. Available athttp://tbcindia.nic.in/pdfs/Guidance%20tool%20for%20TB%20notification%20in%20India%20-%20FINAL.pdf. Accessed March 29th, 2013.\r\n2.\tBirkhead GS, Maylahn CM. State and local public health surveillance. In Teutsch S, Churchill R, editors. Principles and practice of public health surveillance. New York: Oxford University Press; 2000. pp 264-246.\r\n3.\tGawde N. Do we need notification of tuberculosis? A public health perspective. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. 2013 Jan-Mar;X(1):56-58.\r\n4.\tMatharu S. Totally drug resistant TB surfaces in Mumbai, govt. in denial: One World South Asia. Available at http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/totally-drug-resistant-tb-government-denial-mode. Accessed March 29th, 2013.\r\n5.\tShukla S, Ramakant B. CNS. Available at http://www.citizen-news.org/2012/05/what-does-making-tb-notifiable-disease.html. Accessed April 2nd, 2013.\r\n6.\tDuggal R. The notifiable disease syndrome: Health administrator [Internet]. 2008;21(1-2):79-80. Available at http://data.unaids.org/Publications/IRC-pub01/jc338-namebased_en.pdf. Accessed April 8th, 2013."
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title: 'Tuberculosis Notification: Issues and Challenges.'
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volume: 12
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