Protective impacts of household-based tuberculosis contact tracing are robust across endemic incidence levels and community contact patterns.
There is an emerging consensus that achieving global tuberculosis control targets will require more proactive case finding approaches than are currently used in high-incidence settings. Household contact tracing (HHCT), for which households of newly diagnosed cases are actively screened for addition...
Main Authors: | Joshua Havumaki, Ted Cohen, Chengwei Zhai, Joel C Miller, Seth D Guikema, Marisa C Eisenberg, Jon Zelner |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-02-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008713 |
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