Tuberculosis household accompaniment to improve the contact management cascade: A prospective cohort study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 14; no. 5; p. e0217104
• Main Authors: Yuen, Courtney M, Millones, Ana K, Contreras, Carmen C, Lecca, Leonid, Becerra, Mercedes C, Keshavjee, Salmaan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 17.05.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; Cohort analysis; Confidence intervals; Contact Tracing - statistics & numerical data; Development and progression; Disease prevention; Disease transmission; Drug resistance; Evaluation; Family Characteristics; Female; Health facilities; HIV; Households; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infections; Intervention; Management; Medical diagnosis; Medical research; Medical tests; Medicine and Health Sciences; Methods; Morbidity; Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification; Odds Ratio; Patients; People and places; Peru - epidemiology; Population; Prevention; Preventive medicine; Prospective Studies; Radiography; Research and Analysis Methods; Retrospective Studies; Rifamycins; Skin; Skin tests; Therapy; Tuberculin; Tuberculin Test - methods; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - diagnosis; Tuberculosis - epidemiology; Tuberculosis - prevention & control; Tuberculosis - transmission; Ultrasonic testing; Vouchers; Young Adult; Peru; United States > US; Massachusetts

Appropriate management of people exposed in the home to tuberculosis is essential to prevent morbidity. These household contacts, particularly children, should receive preventive therapy to prevent them from falling ill. However, few people receive preventive therapy worldwide. We sought to determin...