Certification of TB culture and drug susceptibility testing laboratories through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP)
Sachdeva, K.Singh.; Nagaraja, S.Burugina.; Kumar, A.; Kumar, P.; Ramachandran, R.
Journal of the Indian Medical Association 110(7): 488-489
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5847 PMID: 23520677 Document Number: 656266
The RNTCP is implementing the Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (PMDT) for detecting and treating drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). Diagnostic services for DR-TB is provided through a network of RNTCP certified Culture and Drug Susceptibility Testing (C&DST) laboratories.This paper describes about the process involved in certification of C&DST laboratories for different technologies used in RNTCP.
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