Extending ‘Contact Tracing’ into the Community within a 50-Metre Radius of an Index Tuberculosis Patient Using Xpert MTB/RIF in Urban, Pakistan: Did It Increase Case Detection?

BACKGROUND: Currently, only 62% of incident tuberculosis (TB) cases are reported to the national programme in Pakistan. Several innovative interventions are being recommended to detect the remaining ‘missed’ TB cases. One such intervention involved expanding contact investigation to the community us...

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Publié dans:PLoS One
Auteurs principaux: Fatima, Razia, Qadeer, Ejaz, Yaqoob, Aashifa, Haq, Mahboob ul, Majumdar, Suman S., Shewade, Hemant D., Stevens, Robert, Creswell, Jacob, Mahmood, Nasir, Kumar, Ajay M. V.
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: Public Library of Science 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5127497/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27898665
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165813
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