Design and protocol for a cluster randomised trial of enhanced diagnostics for tuberculosis screening among people living with HIV in hospital in Malawi (CASTLE study).
<h4>Background</h4>People living with HIV (PLHIV) have a high risk of death if hospitalised in low-income countries. Tuberculosis has long been the leading cause of admission and death, in part due to suboptimal diagnostics. Two promising new diagnostic tools are digital chest Xray with...
Main Authors: | Rachael M Burke, Saulos Nyirenda, Hussein H Twabi, Marriott Nliwasa, Elizabeth Joekes, Naomi Walker, Rose Nyirenda, Ankur Gupta-Wright, Katherine Fielding, Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L Corbett |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261877 |
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