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Symptoms occur after 3 months
Please answer me how to check drug resistance & how to know if first line drug is not working? any test
my medicine was working well then all of a sudden, symptoms relapsed.
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culture and genotypic methods like first and second line LPA
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Hi go for Both FIRST LINE AND SECOND LINE LPA OR CULTURE DST.
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there are dst and lpa for that
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Dr. A Raja Prasanna Kumar
Pulmonologist
46 yrs exp
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Pl do sputum for Afb and cbnatt test. Pl do Dstand lpa.All govt tb centres are having this facility.of course,History and symptoms, No improvement with treatment, also will be helpful.
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