Drug resistant tuberculosis has frequently been encountered in India. The prevalence of extrapulmonary multi drug resistant tuberculosis in this country is found to be 3% in new cases and 12-17% in treated cases, which needs to be evaluated. Settings and
Design:
A retrospective analysis of processed extrapulmonary tubercular samples in Intermediate Reference Laboratory of Department of Microbiology, Goa Medical College, was carried out over a period of one year, from November 2013 to October 2014.
Methods:
Lowenstein Jensen Media was used for culture processing of 202 samples from clinically suspected cases of extra-pulmonary tuberculosispatients. Drug susceptibility testing was done on the isolated strains using the economic variant of proportion method.
With the advent of immunocompromised states, one has to be aware of multi drug resistant extra-pulmonary tuberculosis as a double edged sword. The early detection in such cases is a need of the hour to initiate prompt treatment.