Cost-effectiveness analysis of community active case finding and household contact investigation for tuberculosis case detection in urban Africa.

Cost-effectiveness analysis of community active case finding and household contact investigation for tuberculosis case detection in urban Africa.

INTRODUCTION:Case detection by passive case finding (PCF) strategy alone is inadequate for detecting all tuberculosis (TB) cases in high burden settings especially Sub-Saharan Africa. Alternative case detection strategies such as community Active Case Finding (ACF) and Household Contact Investigatio...

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Main Authors:	Juliet N Sekandi, Kevin Dobbin, James Oloya, Alphonse Okwera, Christopher C Whalen, Phaedra S Corso
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:	PLoS ONE
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4319733?pdf=render

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