The impact of chest radiography and Xpert MTB/RIF testing among household contacts in Chennai, India.

The impact of chest radiography and Xpert MTB/RIF testing among household contacts in Chennai, India.

Tuberculosis prevalence surveys have demonstrated the benefit of screening with chest x-ray (CXR) and sensitive diagnostic tests compared to symptoms and smear microscopy. However, in programmatic practice there is little evidence on the yield of different algorithms. We implemented contact tracing...

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Main Authors: Ramya Ananthakrishnan, Rajeswaran Thiagesan, Sheela Auguesteen, Nalini Karunakaran, Lavanya Jayabal, Jagadeesan M, Robert Stevens, Andrew Codlin, Jacob Creswell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241203

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