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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Autores principales: Cilloni, Lucia, Kranzer, Katharina, Stagg, Helen R., Arinaminpathy, Nimalan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7710036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33264288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003456

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7710036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33264288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003456

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