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Blood-based host biomarker diagnostics in active case finding for pulmonary tuberculosis: A diagnostic case-control study

EClinicalMedicine, 2021
Background: There is a need to identify scalable tuberculosis screening strategies among high burden populations. The WHO has identified a non-sputum-based triage test as a development priority.
Flora Martinez Figueira Moreira, Renu Verma, Paulo Cesar Pereira dos Santos, Alessandra Leite, Andrea da Silva Santos, Rafaele Carla Pivetta de Araujo, Bruna Oliveira da Silva, Júlio Henrique Ferreira de Sá Queiroz, David H. Persing, Erik Södersten, Devasena Gnanashanmugam, Purvesh Khatri, Julio Croda, Jason R. Andrews   +13 more
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The asymptomatic tuberculosis proportion among the elderly population: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Public Health
Background The elderly population is a high-risk group for tuberculosis, and increasing evidence demonstrates a comparatively high proportion of asymptomatic tuberculosis in this group.
Yiqing Zhou, Fei Wang, Songhua Chen, Yu Zhang, Wei Wang, Qian Wu, Dan Luo, Yuxiao Ling, Yang Li, Luyu Wang, Jingru Wei, Bin Chen, Canyou Zhang, Kui Liu   +13 more
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Building on facilitators and overcoming barriers to implement active tuberculosis case-finding in Nepal, experiences of community health workers and people with tuberculosis

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Nepal has a high burden of undetected tuberculosis (TB). In line with the World Health Organization’s End TB Strategy, the National TB Programme promotes active case-finding (ACF) as one strategy to find people with TB who are unreached by ...
Olivia Biermann, Kritika Dixit, Bhola Rai, Maxine Caws, Knut Lönnroth, Kerri Viney   +5 more
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Mapping evidence on tuberculosis active case finding policies, strategies, and interventions for tuberculosis key populations: a systematic scoping review protocol

Systematic Reviews, 2019
Background Early diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) have been shown to reduce the impact of TB illness particularly, among TB key populations such as people living with HIV/AIDS, prisoners, refugees, migrants, displaced populations, survivors ...
Desmond Kuupiel, Vitalis Bawontuo, Tivani P. Mashamba-Thompson   +2 more
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Yield of TB screening in prisons in Tajikistan

IJTLD Open
BACKGROUND: The rate of TB in prison institutions is estimated to be 23 times higher than in the general population. Limited documentation exists regarding TB screening in Tajikistan's prisons.
S. Moe, M. Asozoda, A. Aung, Z. Dusmatova, F. Akintore, E. Nshimiyimana, A. Zavqibekov, N. Sitali, W.K. Mulanda, T. Cullip, A. Sinha   +10 more
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Stigma, depression, and quality of life among people with pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed through active and passive case finding in Nepal: a prospective cohort study

BMC Global and Public Health
Background The psychosocial consequences of tuberculosis (TB) are key barriers to ending TB globally. We evaluated and compared stigma, depression, and quality of life (QoL) among people with TB diagnosed through active (ACF) and passive (PCF) case ...
Kritika Dixit, Bhola Rai, Tara Prasad Aryal, Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira-Filha, Raghu Dhital, Manoj Kumar Sah, Ram Narayan Pandit, Govinda Majhi, Puskar Raj Paudel, Jens W. Levy, Job van Rest, Suman Chandra Gurung, Gokul Mishra, Knut Lönnroth, Stephen Bertel Squire, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Laura Bonnett, Ahmad Fuady, Maxine Caws, Tom Wingfield   +19 more
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Evaluation of facility and community-based active household tuberculosis contact investigation in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background No established strategy for household tuberculosis (TB) contact investigation (HTCI) exists in Ethiopia. We implemented integrated, active HTCI model into two hospitals and surrounding community health services to determine yield of active ...
Fana Tefera, Gena Barnabee, Anjali Sharma, Beniam Feleke, Daniel Atnafu, Negasi Haymanot, Gabrielle O’Malley, Getachew Feleke   +7 more
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Prevalence of Tuberculosis among Household Contacts in Pondicherry: Active Case Finding Among New Smear Positive Cases

Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2016
Introduction: The risk of transmission from the index case to its contacts is more in case of smear positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis cases. Any delay in diagnosis and treatment increases the risk of disease transmission to their contacts.
Kumar VA, Kalaiselvan G, Dongre AR
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Status of Tuberculosis services in Indian Prisons

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
Introduction: Prisons are known to be a high risk environment for tuberculosis (TB) due to overcrowding, low levels of nutrition, poor infection control and lack of accessible healthcare services.
Banuru Muralidhara Prasad, Badri Thapa, Sarabjit Singh Chadha, Anand Das, Entoor Ramachandra Babu, Subrat Mohanty, Sripriya Pandurangan, Jamhoih Tonsing   +7 more
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Tuberculosis active case-finding interventions and approaches for prisoners in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic scoping review

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), most prisons are overcrowded with poor ventilation and put prisoners disproportionally at risk of exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) and developing TB infection but are mostly missed due to poor access to ...
Desmond Kuupiel, Portia Vezi, Vitalis Bawontuo, Ernest Osei, Tivani P. Mashamba-Thompson   +4 more
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