Drop-out from the tuberculosis contact investigation cascade in a routine public health setting in urban Uganda: A prospective, multi-center study.

Drop-out from the tuberculosis contact investigation cascade in a routine public health setting in urban Uganda: A prospective, multi-center study.

SETTING:Seven public tuberculosis (TB) units in Kampala, Uganda, where Uganda's national TB program recently introduced household contact investigation, as recommended by 2012 guidelines from WHO. OBJECTIVE:To apply a cascade analysis to implementation of household contact investigation in a pr...

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Main Authors: Mari Armstrong-Hough, Patricia Turimumahoro, Amanda J Meyer, Emmanuel Ochom, Diana Babirye, Irene Ayakaka, David Mark, Joseph Ggita, Adithya Cattamanchi, David Dowdy, Frank Mugabe, Elizabeth Fair, Jessica E Haberer, Achilles Katamba, J Lucian Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5673209?pdf=render

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