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Original Articles TB/INFECTION Profile of multi and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis patients attending chest hospital medical college, Kanpur D. Senthil, Sudhir Chaudhri, Anand Kumar, Sanjay Verma, Avdhesh Kumar Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, G.S.V.M. Medical Collage, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Proforma contained questions on previous antitubercular treatment (ATT) including treatment card, drug-o-gram and side effects, adequacy of doses, combinations, addition of streptomycin in re-treatment, quinolones before drug susceptibility test (DST), empirical second line ATT without DST, duration of treatment and clinical outcome. Diagnostic yield of mycobacterial deoxyribonucleic acid in pleural fluid from patients with suspected pleurisy by polymerase chain reaction C. G. Mohandas, E. Jyothi, Sunny George, P. T. James Deparment of Chest Diseases, Government Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India.