title: Can newer diagnostic microbiological assays guide early tuberculosis management?
authors.forename: Dakshina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bisht
mesh_terms: D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007371:Interferon-gamma; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014374:Tuberculin Test; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents; D007371:Interferon-gamma