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Active Case Finding for Rheumatic Fever in an Endemic Country [PDF]
Journal of the American Heart Association, 2020 Background Despite the high burden of rheumatic heart disease in sub‐Saharan Africa, diagnosis with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is exceedingly rare. Here, we report the results of the first prospective epidemiologic survey to diagnose and characterize ARF at the community level in Africa ...
Emmy Okello +23 more
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Does tuberculosis screening improve individual outcomes? A systematic review
EClinicalMedicine, 2021 Background: To determine if tuberculosis (TB) screening improves patient outcomes, we conducted two systematic reviews to investigate the effect of TB screening on diagnosis, treatment outcomes, deaths (clinical review assessing 23 outcome indicators ...
L Telisinghe +19 more
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Integrated Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Activities in Karachi and Tuberculosis Case Notifications
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 As the COVID-19 pandemic surged, lockdowns led to the cancellation of essential health services. As part of our Zero TB activities in Karachi, we adapted our approach to integrate activities for TB and COVID-19 to decrease the impact on diagnosis and ...
Amyn A. Malik +10 more
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Periodic Active Case Finding for TB: When to Look? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 للتحقيق في العوامل التي تؤثر على الأداء والفعالية من حيث التكلفة للجولات الدورية من اكتشاف الحالات النشطة (ACF) للسل. يتم تحليل النموذج الرياضي لديناميكيات السل و ACF الدوري (PACF) في عصر فيروس نقص المناعة البشرية، والذي تم تبسيطه من خلال افتراض الانتشار المستمر لعدوى السل الكامنة، للميزات التي تتحكم في نتائج التدخل، والتي تقاس بالحالات التي تم تجنبها ...
Peter J. Dodd +2 more
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Exploring clustering of leprosy in the Comoros and Madagascar: A geospatial analysis
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 Objectives: To identify patterns of spatial clustering of leprosy. Design: We performed a baseline survey for a trial on post-exposure prophylaxis for leprosy in Comoros and Madagascar.
Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez +16 more
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Role of community-based active case finding in screening tuberculosis in Yunnan province of China
Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2019 Background The barriers to access diagnosis and receive treatment, in addition to insufficient case identification and reporting, lead to tuberculosis (TB) spreads in communities, especially among hard-to-reach populations.
Jin-Ou Chen +10 more
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Active case finding in contacts of people with tuberculosis [PDF]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2011 Tuberculosis is a major global health challenge that is caused by a bacteria which is spread by airborne droplets. Mostly patients are identified in high-burden countries when they visit health care facilities ('passive case finding'). Contacts of tuberculosis patients are a high-risk group for developing the disease.
Gregory J, Fox +2 more
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Community-based active case-finding interventions for tuberculosis: a systematic review [PDF]
The Lancet Public Health, 2021 BackgroundCommunity-based active case-finding interventions might identify and treat more people with tuberculosis disease than standard case detection. We aimed to assess whether active case-finding interventions can affect tuberculosis epidemiology in the wider community.MethodsWe did a systematic review by searching PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and ...
Rachael M. Burke +11 more
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Active case-finding for tuberculosis in India
The National Medical Journal of India, 2019 Early identification of presumptive tuberculosis (TB) cases through active case-finding (ACF) would be an important complementary strategy to meet the national urgency in accelerating case detection to achieve the goals of 'End TB' strategy. ACF activities have yielded additional cases in different vulnerable groups in India. The yield of cases depends
Prathiksha, Giridharan +2 more
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Yield of household contact tracing for tuberculosis in rural South Africa
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018 Background Efficient and effective strategies for identifying cases of active tuberculosis (TB) in rural sub-Saharan Africa are lacking. Household contact tracing offers a potential approach to diagnose more TB cases, and to do so earlier in the disease ...
Kristen M. Little +5 more
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