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| العنوان: |
Yield of systematic household contact investigation for tuberculosis in a high-burden metropolitan district of South Africa |
| المؤلفون: |
N. Gladys Kigozi, J. Christo Heunis, Michelle C. Engelbrecht |
| المصدر: |
BMC Public Health, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: |
BMC, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: |
2019 |
| المجموعة: |
LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Active case finding, Free State Province, Index cases, Household contact investigation, Mangaung Metropolitan District, Tuberculosis, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| الوصف: |
Abstract 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 African high-burden contexts may stem from uncertainty about the potential yield of this strategy when targeting specific categories of TB index cases. In order to inform and motivate scale-up, this pilot study investigated the effectiveness of SHCI when targeting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended categories of infectious index cases. Method Data were gathered in September and October 2016. Household contacts of infectious TB cases who attended 40 primary health care facilities in Mangaung Metropolitan District were recruited. The categories of TB index cases included 1) children |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article |
| وصف الملف: |
electronic resource |
| اللغة: |
English |
| تدمد: |
1471-2458 |
| Relation: |
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-7194-2; https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2458 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/s12889-019-7194-2 |
| URL الوصول: |
https://doaj.org/article/78a230cb69de4e47903a029c7a9bab31 |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsdoj.78a230cb69de4e47903a029c7a9bab31 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
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