Poojar, Basavaraj
Shenoy, K. Ashok
Naik, Poonam R.
Kamath, Ashwin
Tripathy, Jaya Prasad
Mithra, P. Prasanna
Chowta, Mukta N.
Badarudeen, M. N.
Nagalakshmi, Narasimhaswamy
Sharma, Vivek
Shamanewadi, Amrita N.
Thekkur, Pruthu
Article History
Received: 31 July 2019
Accepted: 27 February 2020
First Online: 10 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Ethics Advisory Group of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France (EAG number: 83/18). The local ethics committee approval was obtained from the ethics committee of Kasturba Medical College (IEC KMC MLR 09-18/304). Permission was sought from the District TB Officer of the Dakshina Kannada district to access DR-TB treatment cards and DR-TB register maintained at the DR-TB center of Mangalore. As this was a retrospective cohort study without direct patient interaction, the ethics committees provided a waiver from informed consent from the study participants.
: As this was a retrospective cohort study without direct patient interaction, the ethics committees provided a waiver from informed consent from the study participants. All the authors approved the final draft of manuscript and consented to be co-authors.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.