Tuberculosis Contact Screening and Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in a South Indian District: Operational Issues for Programmatic Consideration

BACKGROUND: Under India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), all household contacts of sputum smear positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) patients are screened for TB. In the absence of active TB disease, household contacts aged <6 years are eligible for Isoniazid Preve...

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Autores principales: Pothukuchi, Madhavi, Nagaraja, Sharath Burugina, Kelamane, Santosha, Satyanarayana, Srinath, Shashidhar, Babu, Sai, Dewan, Puneet, Wares, Fraser
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21799875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022500

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21799875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022500

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