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Tuberculosis Case Finding in Kulon Progo District, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Passive versus Active Case Finding Using Mobile Chest X-ray

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Active-case finding (ACF) using chest X-ray is an essential method of finding and diagnosing Tuberculosis (TB) cases that may be missed in Indonesia’s routine TB case finding. This study compares active and passive TB case-finding strategies.
John Silwanus Kaku, Riris Andono Ahmad, Stephanie Main, Dwi Oktofiana, Bintari Dwihardiani, Rina Triasih, Philipp du Cros, Geoffrey Chan   +7 more
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Feasibility, yield, and cost of active tuberculosis case finding linked to a mobile HIV service in Cape Town, South Africa: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization is currently developing guidelines on screening for tuberculosis disease to inform national screening strategies. This process is complicated by significant gaps in knowledge regarding mass screening.
Govindasamy, Darshini, Anna Vassall (144677), Linda-Gail Bekker (60754), Nienke van Schaik, Nienke van Schaik (144680), van Schaik Nienke, Lawn, Stephen D, Robin Wood, van Schaik, Nienke, Darshini Govindasamy, Vassall, Anna, Stephen D Lawn, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Gesine Meyer-Rath (144675), Bekker Linda-Gail, Meyer-Rath Gesine, Anna Vassall, Raditlhalo Eudoxia, Kranzer Katharina, Stephen D. Lawn (116037), Robin Wood (4924), Lawn Stephen D., Eudoxia Raditlhalo, Eudoxia Raditlhalo (144678), Raditlhalo, Eudoxia, Katharina Kranzer, Linda-Gail Bekker, Wood Robin, Govindasamy Darshini, Lawn, Stephen D., Bekker, Linda-Gail, Kranzer, Katharina, Darshini Govindasamy (144679), Vassall Anna, Meyer-Rath, Gesine, Wood, Robin, Katharina Kranzer (116027)   +36 more
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Yield of HIV-associated tuberculosis during intensified case finding in resource-limited settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

, 2010
Intensified case finding is the regular screening for evidence of tuberculosis in people infected with HIV, at high risk of HIV, or living in congregate settings.
Lawn, Stephen D, Bekker, Linda-Gail, Kranzer, Katharina, Glynn, Judith R, Houben, Rein Mgj, Wood, Robin   +5 more
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Historical Active Case Finding Data

, 2023
Active case-fiding data generated through mobile X-ray based screening for TB in Pakistan. This dataset contains aggregate and anonymized data for active case finding interventions called "chest camps". Each row in the dataset corresponds to summary data
Syed Zaidi (13859261)
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Implementation of tuberculosis intensive case finding, isoniazid preventive therapy, and infection control ("Three I's") and HIV-tuberculosis service integration in lower income countries [PDF]

, 2016
World Health Organization advocates for integration of HIV-tuberculosis (TB) services and recommends intensive case finding (ICF), isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT), and infection control ("Three I's") for TB prevention and control among persons living ...
M Katherine Charles, Barbara Castelnuovo (10700), Nguyen Thi Dung, Divine Avit-Edi, Cortés Moncada, Claudia, IeDEA, Ballif, Marie, Nakigozi, Gertrude, Marie Ballif, Durier, Nicolas, Dusingize, Jean Claude, Charles, M Katherine, Nguyen, Thi Dung, Wester, C William, ,, Meridith Blevins, Dung, Nguyen Thi, Cortes, Claudia P, Cortes, Claudia P., Fenner, Lukas, C William Wester, Wester, C. William, Jean Claude Dusingize (473718), Divine Avit-Edi (2609464), Claudia P. Cortes (473719), Mary Lou Lindegren (2609461), Lindegren, Mary Lou, Gertrude Nakigozi, Charles, M. Katherine, Gertrude Nakigozi (247948), C. William Wester (250717), Timothy R. Sterling (148936), Lukas Fenner, Marie Ballif (368655), Blevins, Meridith, Nicolas Durier (326615), Jean Claude Dusingize, Claudia P Cortes, Avit-Edi, Divine, Sterling, Timothy R., Nguyen Thi Dung (245054), Nicolas Durier, Castelnuovo, Barbara, Timothy R Sterling, International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Collaboration, Mary Lou Lindegren, Barbara Castelnuovo, Lukas Fenner (149822), Sterling, Timothy R, Meridith Blevins (291088), M. Katherine Charles (2609458)   +50 more
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Active TB Case Finding: Guidance Document

, 2023
Government of India guidelines for active case finding for tuberculosis in ...
Central TB Division (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) (14293604)
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Potential indicators for monitoring active case finding interventions.

, 2021
Potential indicators for monitoring active case finding interventions.
Vineet Bhatia (9140939), Alka Aggarwal Singh (11747372), Jacob Creswell (471745)   +2 more
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An evaluation of innovative community-based approaches and systematic tuberculosis screening to improve tuberculosis case detection in Ebonyi State, Nigeria

International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2017
Background: National tuberculosis (TB) programmes globally rely heavily on passive case finding for detecting TB in the community as advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Daniel C Oshi, Joachim C Omeje, Sarah N Oshi, Isaac N Alobu, Ngozi E Chukwu, Chukwuemeka Nwokocha, Obiageli F Emelumadu, Chidubem L Ogbudebe, Anthony O Meka, Kingsley N Ukwaja   +9 more
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Treatment outcomes of tuberculosis patients detected by active case finding under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme during 2018 in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Background: In India, the active case-finding (ACF) strategy began in 2017 under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme to find its missing tuberculosis (TB) cases.
Mahendra Singh, Yogesh Bahurupi, Abhishek Sharma, Surekha Kishore, Pradeep Aggarwal, Bhavna Jain, Ajeet Singh Bhadoria, Navuluri Kranthi Kumar Reddy   +7 more
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Comparison of yield and relative costs of different screening algorithms for tuberculosis in active case-finding: a cross-section study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Part of tuberculosis (TB) patients were missed if symptomatic screening was based on the main TB likely symptoms. This study conducted to compare the yield and relative costs of different TB screening algorithms in active case-finding in the ...
Fei Zhao, Canyou Zhang, Chongguang Yang, Yinyin Xia, Jin Xing, Guolong Zhang, Lin Xu, Xiaomeng Wang, Wei Lu, Jianwei Li, Feiying Liu, Dingwen Lin, Jianlin Wu, Xin Shen, Shuangyi Hou, Yanling Yu, Dongmei Hu, Chunyi Fu, Lixia Wang, Jun Cheng, Hui Zhang   +20 more
doaj   +1 more source