A Neighbor-Based Approach to Identify Tuberculosis Exposure, the Kopanyo Study
Open Access
- 1 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 26 (5), 1010-1013
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2605.191568
Abstract
Contact investigation is one public health measure used to prevent tuberculosis by identifying and treating persons exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Contact investigations are a major tenet of global tuberculosis elimination efforts, but for many reasons remain ineffective. We describe a novel neighbor-based approach to reframe contact investigations.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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