Yield of facility-based verbal screening amongst household contacts of patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Pakistan

Background: Household contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients are at a high risk of getting infected with TB/MDR-TB, therefore symptomatic or vulnerable individuals should be screened and treated early. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among household contacts of...

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Main Authors: Ejaz Qadeer, Razia Fatima, Mahboob Ul Haq, Aashifa Yaqoob, Nang Thu Thu Kyaw, Safieh Shah, Mrinalini Das, Petros Isaakidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405579416300286