Intensified household contact tracing, prevention and treatment support versus enhanced standard of care for contacts of tuberculosis cases in South Africa: study protocol for a household cluster-randomised trial

Intensified household contact tracing, prevention and treatment support versus enhanced standard of care for contacts of tuberculosis cases in South Africa: study protocol for a household cluster-randomised trial

Abstract Background Household contact tracing of index TB cases has been advocated as a key part of TB control for many years, but has not been widely implemented in many low-resource setting because of the current dearth of high quality evidence for effectiveness. Innovative strategies for earlier,...

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Main Authors: Peter MacPherson, Emily L. Webb, Ebrahim Variava, Sanjay G. Lala, Minja Milovanovic, Andrew Ratsela, Limakatso Lebina, Anthony Kinghorn, Neil A. Martinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Tuberculosis
HIV
Case-finding
Prevention
Screening
Treatment
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-019-4502-5

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