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

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

<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods and fin...

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Main Authors: Colleen F Hanrahan, Bareng A S Nonyane, Lesego Mmolawa, Nora S West, Tsundzukani Siwelana, Limakatso Lebina, Neil Martinson, David W Dowdy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-04-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002796

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