Extending ‘Contact Tracing’ into the Community within a 50-Metre Radius of an Index Tuberculosis Patient Using Xpert MTB/RIF in Urban, Pakistan: Did It Increase Case Detection? - Fatima, Razia; Qadeer, Ejaz; Yaqoob, Aashifa; Haq, Mahboob ul; Majumdar, Suman S.; Shewade, Hemant D.; Stevens, Robert; Creswell, Jacob; Mahmood, Nasir; Kumar, Ajay M. V. (PloS one, 2016)
Keywords: Adolescent; Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Child; Child, Preschool; Communities; Computer and Information Sciences; Contact tracing; Contact Tracing - methods; Diagnosis; Drug resistance; Earth Sciences; Epidemiology; Ethics; Female; Geographic information systems; Geography; Ghettos; Households; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Intervention; Lung diseases; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medicine and Health Sciences; Microscopy; Mycobacterium; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Pakistan - epidemiology; Patients; People and Places; Population; Research and Analysis Methods; Retrospective Studies; Slums; Smallpox; Smear; Studies; Systematic review; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - diagnosis; Tuberculosis - epidemiology; Ultrasonic testing; Pakistan; East Asia; Islamabad Pakistan; France; India