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We calculated the cumulative incidence and timing of symptomatic TB recurrence and the prevalence of asymptomatic recurrence at two screening time points, and performed Cox-regression analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Of 713 culture-confirmed PTB and cure, 60 (8%) experienced confirmed TB recurrence (cumulative incidence: 8.7 [95% confidence interval (CI): 6.6\u201311.2]\/100 person-years), including 40 (66.7%) symptomatic and 20 (33.3%) asymptomatic recurrences. At study visits with scheduled sputum testing, 22 of 35 (63%) TB recurrences diagnosed were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. Undernutrition was an independent risk factor for overall TB recurrence (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 2.1, 95% CI: 1.1\u20134.0,\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.03). Symptomatic recurrences were associated with age &gt; 35 years (aHR 2.5, 95% CI: 1.3\u20135.0,\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.01), while the risk of asymptomatic recurrences was higher in the age-group of 14\u201335 years (aHR 2.8, 95% CI: 0.8\u20139.8,\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.10).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among cured PTB patients, 8.4% experienced recurrent TB and one third of recurrences were asymptomatic at diagnosis, highlighting a public health concern due to substantial hidden burden of recurrent TB disease in India.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.5588\/ijtldopen.26.0210","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,14]],"date-time":"2026-10-14T04:30:21Z","timestamp":1791952221000},"page":"653-661","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Asymptomatic and symptomatic recurrence of TB among cured pulmonary TB patients"],"prefix":"10.5588","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"M.","family":"Paradkar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Gaikwad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"C.","family":"Padmapriyadarsini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Naik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"N.","family":"Pradhan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"R.","family":"Karyakarte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"T.","family":"Sahasrabudhe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"R.","family":"Lokhande","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Deshmukh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Barthwal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Raskar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"K.","family":"Thiruvengadam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"A.","family":"Kakrani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Krishnan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"A.","family":"Gupte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"A.","family":"Gupta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"N.","family":"Gupte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J.E.","family":"Golub","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"E.A.","family":"Kendall","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"V.","family":"Mave","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"name":"on behalf of the TBDM-CTRIUMPh-RePORT India Study Team","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"3554","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026101321301575000_3.10.653.1","unstructured":"Central TB Division . 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