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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Main Authors: 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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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en liña: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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