Path breaking studies

 

EPIDEMIOLOGY

 

1.      Raj Narain, Geser A, Jambunathan MV &  Subramanian M:  Some aspects of a tuberculosis prevalence survey in a south Indian district.  Bull WHO 1963, 29, 641-64 & Indian J TB 1963, 9, 85-116.

KEY WORDS: Survey; Prevalence; Infection; Disease; Case; Community; Rural; Urban, Epidemiology

 

2.      Raj Narain, Nair SS, Ramanatha Rao G, & Chandrasekhar P: Distri­bution of infection and disease among households in a rural community.  Bull WHO 1966, 34,  639-54 & Indian J TB 1966, 13, 129-46

KEY WORDS: Prevalence; Infection; Disease; Contact; Examination; Household; Rural community.

 

3.      Chandrasekhar P, Nair SS, Padmanabha Rao K,  Ramanatha Rao G & Pyarelal:  Examination of multiple sputum specimens in a tubercu­losis survey. Tubercle 1970, 51, 255-62.

KEY WORDS:  Sputum examination; multiple sputum specimen; Survey; Rural; Ziehl Neelsen; Fluorescent; Culture

 

4.      National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore:  Tuberculosis in a rural population of south India: A five year epidemiological study.  Bull Wld Hlth Org 1974, 51, 473–88.

KEY WORDS: Trend; Rural population; Prevalence; Incidence; Infection; Disease; Longitudinal survey

 

5.   Chakraborty AK:  The use of screening tools for the estimation of tuberculosis case rates in a community.  Indian J Pub Hlth 1980, 24, 115–120.

      KEY WORDS: Screening tools; Estimates; Case rate; Symptoms; X-ray; Tuberculin; Survey

 

6.   Chakraborty AK, Ganapathy KT & Rajalakshmi R:  Effect of nutri­tional status on delayed hypersensitivity due to tuberculin test in children of an urban slum community.  Indian J TB 1980, 27, 115–119

      KEY WORDS: Nutritional status; Tuberculin reaction; Slum community; Infection

 

7.   Chakraborty AK, Channabasavaiah R, Krishna Murthy MS, Shashidhara AN, Krishna Murthy VV  &  Chaudhuri K:   Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in a peri-urban community of Bangalore under various methods of population screening.  Indian J TB 1994, 41, 17–27.

      KEY WORDS: Screening tools; Chest symptomatics; MMR; Prevalence; Case; Peri urban community

 

8.     Chadha VK, Suryanarayana HV, Krishna Murthy MS, Jagannath PS & Shashidhara AN:  Prevalence of undernutrition among peri-urban children and its influence on the estimation of annual risk of tuberculosis infection.  Indian J TB 1997, 44, 67–71.

        KEY WORDS: Under nutrition; ARI; Peri-urban; Prevalence; Epidemiology

 

 

SOCIOLOGY

 

9.   Andersen S & Banerji D: A sociological inquiry into an urban TB control programme     

       in India. Bull Wld Hlth Org 1963, 29, 685-700.

KEY WORDS: Urban; Social inquiry; Compliance

 

10. Banerji D &  Andersen S: A sociological study of awareness of symptoms among persons with pulmonary tuberculosis. Bull Wld Hlth Org 1963, 29, 665-683.

      KEY WORDS: Social awareness; Symptoms; Social aspects; Case; Suspect case

 

11. . Radha Narayan, Susy Thomas, Pramila Kumari S, Prabhakar S, Rama­prakash AN, Suresh T & Srikantaramu N:  Prevalence of chest symptoms & action taken by symptomatics in a rural community. Indian J TB 1976, 23, 160–68.

      KEY WORDS: Symptoms; Action taking; Rural population

 

12 Radha Narayan, Prabhakar S, Susy Thomas, Pramila Kumari S, Suresh T & Srikantaramu N:  A sociological study of awareness of symp­toms and action taking of persons with pulmonary tuberculosis (A re-survey).  Indian J TB 1979, 26, 136–46.

      KEY WORDS: Social awareness; Action taking; Symptoms; Rural population; Urban population; Interview; Control programme

 

13. Radha Narayan, Susy Thomas, Srikantaramu N & Srikantan K: Ill­ness perception and medical relief in rural communities.  Indian J TB 1982, 29, 98–103.

      KEY WORDS: Illness perception; Rural community; Medical relief; Utilization

 

Operations Research (Includes Case finding, Case holding, Treatment)

 

14. Gothi GD, Baily GVJ: Problems of treatment of TB patients in rural areas.  Indian J         TB 1965, 12, 62-68.

KEY WORDS: Treatment problems; Self-administered regimen; Supervised regimen; Rural community; Case holding

 

15. Baily GVJ, Savic D, Gothi GD, Naidu VB & Nair SS: Potential yield of pulmonary tuberculosis cases by direct microscopy of sputum in a district of south India.  Bull WHO 1967, 37, 875-92.

KEY WORDS: Case finding; Chest symptomatics; PHI; Potential; Work load

 

16. Nagpaul DR:  District Tuberculosis Programme in concept and outline.  Indian J TB 1967, 14, 186-198.

KEY WORDS: DTP; DTC; PHI; Integration; Concept & outline

 

17.  Gothi GD, Savic D,  Baily GVJ & Rupert Samuel GE: Cases of  pulmonary tuberculosis among the out-patients attending General Health Institutions in an Indian city. Bull Wld Hlth Org 1970, 43, 35–40.

         KEY WORDS: Case finding; Urban health institutions; Self reporting chest symptoms; Out-patients

 

18.    Nagpaul DR, Viswanath MK & Dwarakanath G:  A Socio-epidemiological study of out-patients attending a city tuberculosis clinic in India to judge the place of specialised centres in a tuberculosis control programme. Bull Wld Hlth Org 1970, 43, 17–34.

KEY WORDS: Control programme; Socio-epidemiology; Specialised centre

 

19.    Gothi GD, Savic D, Baily GVJ, Padmanabha Rao K, Nair SS & Rupert Samuel GE:  Collection and consumption of self-administered anti-tuberculosis drugs under programme conditions. Indian J TB 1971, 18, 107–113.

KEY WORDS: Self administered regimen; Drug collection level; Drug   consumption; Control programme; Compliance

 

20.  Padmanabha Rao K, Nair SS, Naganathan N & Rajalakshmi R: Assess­ment of diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by sputum microscopy in a District Tuberculosis Programme. Indian J TB 1971, 18, 10–25.

KEY WORDS: Control programme; Assessment; Diagnosis; Sputum microscopy

 

21.  Baily GVJ, Rupert Samuel GE & Nagpaul DR:  A concurrent compari­son of an unsupervised self-administered daily regimen and a fully supervised twice weekly regimen of chemotherapy in a rou­tine out-patient treatment programme.  Indian J TB 1974, 21, 152–167

   KEY WORDS: TH Regimen; Daily regimen; Supervised intermittent regimen; acceptability; Efficacy; Control programme

 

22.  Nagpaul DR, Baily GVJ,  Prakash M & Rupert Samuel GE:  Prevalence of symptoms in a south Indian rural community and utilisation of area health centre. Indian J Med Res 1977, 66, 635–647.

         KEY WORDS: Symptom prevalence; Rural community; Rural health services

 

23.   Aneja KS, Gothi GD & Rupert Samuel GE: Controlled study of the effect of specific treatment on bacteriological status of  “sus­pect cases”.  Indian J TB 1979, 26, 50–57.

         KEY WORDS: Control study; Suspect case; TH regimen; Efficacy

 

24.    Seetha MA, Srikantaramu N, Aneja KS & Hardan Singh:  Influence of motivation of patients and their family members on the drug collection by patients. Indian J TB 1981, 28, 182–190.

         KEY WORDS: Compliance; Family motivation; Control programme; Treatment completion.

 

25. Tuberculosis Research Center, Chennai & National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore:  A controlled clinical trial of 3 and 5 month regimens in the treatment of sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis in south India. Ame Rev Resp Dis 1986, 134, 27–33.

      KEY WORDS: SCC regimen; Daily regimen; Clinical trail; Efficacy; Adverse reactions

 

26. Jagota P, Sudha Xirasagar, Parimala N & Chaudhuri K: A study of operational factors influencing the applicability of two regimens of Short Course Chemotherapy under conditions of an urban tuber­culosis programme.  Indian J TB 1989, 36, 213–223.

      KEY WORDS: SCC; Daily regimen; Operational factors; Applicability; Control programme

 

BCG

 

27.  Gothi GD, Kul Bhushan, Nair SS & Baily GVJ:  BCG without tubercu­lin test. Proceedings of  Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Workers  Conference, 19th, New Delhi, India, 5-7 Apr. 1964, 138-162

      KEY WORDS: Rural population; Direct BCG vaccination; Applicability

 

28.  Kul Bhushan, Nair SS & Ganapathy KT: Assessment of post vaccina­tion allergy among those vaccinated without pre-vaccination tuberculin test.  Indian J TB 1970, 17, 18-31

      KEY WORDS: BCG; Post vaccination allergy; Assessment; Direct BCG vaccination

 

29.  Baily GVJ, Kul Bhushan, Rupert Samuel GE & Keshava Murthy BK:  Integration of BCG vaccination in the General Health Services in rural areas.  Indian J TB 1973, 20, 155–160.

      KEY WORDS: Integration; BCG vaccination; Health services; Rural population

 

BACTERIOLOGY

 

30.  Padmanabha Rao K, Nair SS, Cobbold N & Naganathan N:  Some opera­tional factors influencing the utility of culture examination in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis.  Indian J TB 1966, 13, 61-76

KEY WORDS: Culture examination; Diagnosis; Relative utility; Operational factors

 

31.  Naganathan N, Nagpaul DR & Nair SS: Case finding by sputum microscopy. Proceedings of the combined National Conference on Tuberculosis & Chest Diseases, 29th & Conference of the Eastern Region of IUAT, 9th, New Delhi, India, 1974,  351–58

      KEY WORDS: Cost; Sputum microscopy; staining methods; Ziehl Neelsen; Case finding

 

32.  Challu VK, Mahadev B, Rajalakshmi R & Chaudhuri K:  Recovery of tubercle bacilli from urine of pulmonary tuberculosis patients and its comparison with the corresponding sputum isolates.  Indian J TB 1989, 36, 107–111.

      KEY WORDS: Filtration; Centrifugation; Sensitivity; Virulence; Specificity; Tubercle bacilli

 

ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION OF TB CONTROL PROGRAMME

 

33.  Nair SS: Assessment and monitoring of National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP).  Indian J TB 1971, 18, 131–134.

      KEY WORDS: Assessment; Monitoring control programme

 

34.  Nair SS: A simple model for planning & assessment of programmes for tuberculosis control.  Indian J Pub Hlth 1977, 21, 111–131.

      KEY WORDS: Model; Planning; Assessment; Control programme

 

35.  World Health Organization: Tuberculosis programme review – India, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1992

      KEY WORDS: Revised strategy; Control programme; Performance; Evaluation; Situation analysis

 

36.  In depth study on National Tuberculosis Programme of India, Institute of communication, operations, research & community involvement, Bangalore, 1998.

KEY WORDS: Control programme; Performance; Evaluation

 

OPERATIONAL ASPECTS

 

37.  Jagota P, Mahadev B, Srikantaramu N, Balasangameshwara VH & Sreenivas TR: Case-finding in District Tuberculosis Programme: potential and performance.  Indian J TB 1998, 45, 39–46.

KEY WORDS: Case finding; DTP; Performance

 

38.  Sophia Vijay, Balasangameshwara VH & Srikantaramu N: Treatment dynamics and profile of tuberculosis patients under the District Tuberculosis Programme (DTP) – A prospective cohort study, Indian J TB 1999, 46, 239-49.

KEY WORDS: Treatment dynamics; TB patients; DTP; cohort

 

 

ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RISK OF TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION AMONG BCG VACCINATED

CHILDREN

 

39.  V.K. Chadha,  M.S. Krishna Murthy, A.N. Shashidhara, P.S Jagannatha and V. Magesh  Ind J. Tub, 1999,46,105-112

KEY WORDS: Annual Risk of Tuberculosis Infection, ARI in Vaccinated Children, Tuberculin Survey.

 

 

TUBERCULIN SENSITIVITY IN BCG VACCINATED CHILDREN AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR

ARI ESTIMATION 

 

40.  V.K. Chadha, PS Jagannath and HV Suryanarayana  Ind.J.Tub. 2000, 47, 139-146

      KEY WORDS: Tuberculin sensitivity, ARI estimation.

 

 

TUBERCULIN TEST

 

41.  V. K. Chadha Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2001;68(1):53-58

KEY WORDS: Tuberculin test; Size of induration; infection with tubercle bacilli, Non-specific      sensitivity; BCG-induced sensitivity; Purpose of the test.

 

 

ANNUAL RISK OF TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION IN BANGALORE CITY

 

42.  V.K. Chadha, PS Jagannatha and Shashidhar J. Savanur Ind.J.Tub.,2001,48,63-71

KEY WORDS: Annual Risk of Tuberculosis Infection, prevalence of Infection.

 

 

MIXTURE MODEL FOR ANALYSIS OF TUBERCULIN SURVEYS

 

43. Shashidhar J. Savanur, V.K. Chadha and P.S. Jagannatha  Ind J. Tub., 2002,49,147

      KEY WORDS: Mixture Model Analysis, Maximum likelihood estimate, EM algorithm, Prevalence of tuberculosis infection.

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