Under the DOTS strategy of Revised National Tuberculosis Programme, the recommended line of management is category I patients, if the sputum is positive after 2 months of intensive phase treatment with 4 drugs, is to -

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Continue the intensive phase of treatment with 4 drugs for 1 more month only, regardless of sputum positivity after that

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Sta the continuation phase of treatment with INH and rifampicin

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Continue the intensive phase of treatment with 4 drugs until the sputum becomes negative

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Add one more drug, that is, to use 5 drugs until the sputum becomes negative

Under the DOTS strategy of Revised National Tuberculosis Programme, the recommended line of management is category I patients, if the sputum is positive after 2 months of intensive phase treatment with 4 drugs, is to -

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