Active contact tracing beyond the household in multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Vietnam: a cohort study

BACKGROUND:Currently in Vietnam contact tracing for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) entails passive case finding among symptomatic household contacts who present themselves for diagnosis. Close contacts of MDR-TB cases are therefore not identified adequately. We assessed the added value of...

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Main Authors: Hoang, T, Nguyen, V, Dinh, N, Thwaites, G, Nguyen, T, Van Doorn, H, Cobelens, F, Wertheim, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2019