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Contact tracing versus facility-based screening for active TB case finding in rural South Africa: A pragmatic cluster-randomized trial (Kharitode TB)

BACKGROUND: There is a dearth of comparative effectiveness research examining the implementation of different strategies for active tuberculosis (TB) case finding, particularly in rural settings, which represent 60% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a pragma...

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Autores principales: Hanrahan, Colleen F., Nonyane, Bareng A. S., Mmolawa, Lesego, West, Nora S., Siwelana, Tsundzukani, Lebina, Limakatso, Martinson, Neil, Dowdy, David W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6490908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31039165
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002796