What is it about?

Identifying the M. tb strains from a high TB burden population, drug susceptibility, mutations conferring drug resistance in drug target genes, transmission pattern of these MTB strains

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Why is it important?

Important to identify the presence of strains in communities and how they are contributing in increasing the disease burden.

Perspectives

Future perspective of such studies to identify the hot spot regions mainly responsible for high disease burden, to develop intervention strategies to evaluate the efficacy of RNTCP or DOTS programme

Dr. Ravi Prakash
Fudan University

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This page is a summary of: Genotypic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from North-Central Indian population, Pathogens and Global Health, January 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/20477724.2019.1583881.
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