Are neighbourhoods of tuberculosis cases a high-risk population for active intervention? A protocol for tuberculosis active case finding

Indonesia has the second largest tuberculosis (TB) burden globally. Attempts to scale-up TB control efforts have focused on TB households. However, in most high burden settings, considerable Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) transmission occurs outside TB households. A better understanding of transmi...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 16; no. 8; p. e0256043
Main Authors:	Alisjahbana, Bachti, Koesoemadinata, Raspati Cundarani, Hadisoemarto, Panji Fortuna, Lestari, Bony Wiem, Hartati, Sri, Chaidir, Lidya, Huang, Chuan-Chin, Murray, Megan, Hill, Philip Campbell, McAllister, Susan Margaret
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 13.08.2021 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Analysis Biology and Life Sciences Computer and Information Sciences Consent Contact Tracing - methods Cough Cough - diagnosis Cough - microbiology Diagnosis Disease prevention Disease transmission Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control Epidemiologic Research Design Epidemiology Evaluation Feasibility studies Gene sequencing Health risks Health sciences Hospitals Households Humans Indonesia - epidemiology Infectious diseases Internal medicine Intervention Medical diagnosis Medical schools Medicine Medicine and Health Sciences Microbiological analysis Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Mycobacterium tuberculosis - pathogenicity Neighborhoods Network analysis People and Places Population Prevalence Prevalence studies (Epidemiology) Public health Radiography - methods Risk Factors Signs and symptoms Social networks Social organization Social Sciences Sociodemographics Sputum Study Protocol Supervision Tuberculosis Tuberculosis - diagnosis Tuberculosis - epidemiology Tuberculosis - microbiology Tuberculosis - transmission Urban areas Urban environments Whole genome sequencing Whole Genome Sequencing - methods Indonesia New Zealand Netherlands United States > US Massachusetts
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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