Active contact tracing beyond the household in multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Vietnam: a cohort study

Abstract Background Currently in Vietnam contact tracing for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) entails passive case finding among symptomatic household contacts who present themselves for diagnosis. Close contacts of MDR-TB cases are therefore not identified adequately. We assessed the added...

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Main Authors: Thi Thanh Thuy Hoang, Viet Nhung Nguyen, Ngoc Sy Dinh, Guy Thwaites, Thu Anh Nguyen, H. Rogier van Doorn, Frank Cobelens, Heiman F. L. Wertheim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-6573-z