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Intensified household contact tracing, prevention and treatment support versus enhanced standard of care for contacts of tuberculosis cases in South Africa: study protocol for a household cluster-randomised trial
BACKGROUND: Household contact tracing of index TB cases has been advocated as a key part of TB control for many years, but has not been widely implemented in many low-resource setting because of the current dearth of high quality evidence for effectiveness. Innovative strategies for earlier, more ef...
Autores principales: | MacPherson, Peter, Webb, Emily L., Variava, Ebrahim, Lala, Sanjay G., Milovanovic, Minja, Ratsela, Andrew, Lebina, Limakatso, Kinghorn, Anthony, Martinson, Neil A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6790042/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31606032 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4502-5 |
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