Yield of Systematic Longitudinal Screening of Household Contacts of Pre-Extensively Drug Resistant (PreXDR) and Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Tuberculosis Patients in Mumbai, India

Yield of Systematic Longitudinal Screening of Household Contacts of Pre-Extensively Drug Resistant (PreXDR) and Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Tuberculosis Patients in Mumbai, India

While risk of tuberculosis (TB) is high among household contacts (HHCs) of pre-extensively drug resistant (pre-XDR) TB and XDR-TB, data on yield of systematic longitudinal screening are lacking. We aim to describe the yield of systematic longitudinal TB contact tracing among HHCs of patients with pr...

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Main Authors: Roma Haresh Paryani, Vivek Gupta, Pramila Singh, Madhur Verma, Sabira Sheikh, Reeta Yadav, Homa Mansoor, Stobdan Kalon, Sriram Selvaraju, Mrinalini Das, Chinmay Laxmeshwar, Gabriella Ferlazzo, Petros Isaakidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Subjects:
incidence
tuberculosis
household contacts tracing
operational research
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/5/2/83

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