Yield of systematic household contact investigation for tuberculosis in a high-burden metropolitan district of South Africa

BACKGROUND: Systematic household contact investigation (SHCI) is recommended as an active-case-finding (ACF) strategy to identify individuals at high risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection, in order to enable early detection and treatment. Reluctance to implement SHCI in sub-Saharan African and South A...

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Autores principales: Kigozi, N. Gladys, Heunis, J. Christo, Engelbrecht, Michelle C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31269950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7194-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31269950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7194-2

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