The website hopes to provide necessary information to the patients and professionals interested in knowing more about abdominal tuberculosis. The need was felt as many patients were directly contacting the author on social media for advise regarding the disease.Since such interactions have their downsides, the website where requisite information, updates and advise are available was planned. The website will grow and the plans include FAQs in major Indian languages for the patients and incisive interviews from leaders in the field of abdominal tuberculosis. The website will also have the twitter feed of our account @abdominalTB and will shortly have links to important websites on tuberculosis and updates on recent research. If you have an ide or want to write for us please cotact us using the contact us link
Dr Vishal Sharma is an Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He has been trained at the University of Delhi (UCMS) and PGI, Chandigarh and has > 200 published peer-reviewed papers with a keen interest in abdominal tuberculosis. He is Associate Editor for BMC Infectious Diseases and BMC Gastroenterology and Executive editor for Indian Journal of Medical Specialities. He manages the content on the site. He can be reached at [email protected].
Mr Sachin Sharma is the web-designer for this website and any queries for him can be sent at [email protected]
Dr Harshal S Mandavdhare is an Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology at PGIMER, Chandigarh and has provided the Marathi translation for the FAQs
Dr Jimil Shah is a Senior Reseach Associate at the Department of Gastroenterology at PGIMER, Chandigarh and has provided Gujarati translation for the FAQs
Prof BK Jena, Professor of History at Simulia College, Balasore, Odisha has provided the Oriya translation for the FAQs
Dr Pranab Maity, Senior Resident of Gastroenterology at PGIMER, Chandigarh and Mr Pradip Maity M.Sc have provided the Bengali translation
Dr Naveen, Senior Resident in Gastroenterology has contributed the Kannada translation
Many of the contributors and learned individuals who have provided the translations have refused any acknowledgements. We remain grateful for their contributions which would help us provide information to patients in their languages.