Central Facilities >> For Tuberculosis

The Institute is acting as a national repository for tuberculosis and other pathogenic mycobacteria. All these activities are being coordinated through a Mycobacterial Repository Centre. The Institute has established network with 38 medical institutes all over the Country and provides collaborative support in characterization of difficult-to-characterize mycobacterial isolates, molecular epidemiology The Institute has now initiated programmes on prevention of tuberculosis, surveillance of drug resistance and combined immunotherapy and chemotherapy to TB cases. The standard DOTS and these modified regimens will be/are being given on outdoor basis in Kanpur district.