Trade-offs between cost and accuracy in active case finding for tuberculosis: A dynamic modelling analysis

BACKGROUND: Active case finding (ACF) may be valuable in tuberculosis (TB) control, but questions remain about its optimum implementation in different settings. For example, smear microscopy misses up to half of TB cases, yet is cheap and detects the most infectious TB cases. What, then, is the incr...

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Published in:PLoS Med
Main Authors: Cilloni, Lucia, Kranzer, Katharina, Stagg, Helen R., Arinaminpathy, Nimalan
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7710036/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33264288
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003456
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