“…12 Similar observations were found by Mavila R et al where extrapulmonary manifestation were lymph node (29.4%), gastrointestinal (24%), pleura (23.5%), skeletal (7.5%) and others. 13 The sputum smear results of the study subjects at DOTS clinic, KPCMCH, reflected that the results were negative in 10% patients, scanty in 3.7%, '+' in 1.2%, '++' in 7.5% and '+++' in 17.5% patients. A study conducted at Midnapur district, West Bengal, by Dey D et al showed that sputum grade at diagnosis were scanty (6.9%), negative (19.3%), '+' (44.4%), '++' (12.1%) and '+++' (17.4%).…”