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Improving TB detection among children in routine clinical care through intensified case finding in facility-based child health entry points and decentralized management: A before-and-after study in Nine Sub-Saharan African Countries. [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health
In 2022, an estimated 1.25 million children 50% remained undiagnosed or unreported. WHO recently recommended integrated and decentralized models of care as an approach to improve access to TB services for children, but evidence remains limited.
Jean-François Lemaire, Jennifer Cohn, Shirin Kakayeva, Boris Tchounga, Patricia Fassinou Ekouévi, Vicky Kambaji Ilunga, Donald Ochieng Yara, Samson Lanje, Yusuf Bhamu, Leo Haule, Mary Namubiru, Tichaona Nyamundaya, Maude Berset, Mikhael de Souza, Rhoderick Machekano, Martina Casenghi, CaP-TB Study team   +16 more
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The diagnostic performance of a single GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay in an intensified tuberculosis case finding survey among HIV-infected prisoners in Malaysia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Delays in tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis, particularly in prisons, is associated with detrimental outcomes. The new GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay (Xpert) offers accurate and rapid diagnosis of active TB, but its performance in improving case detection in high ...
Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed Al-Darraji, Humaira Abd Razak, Kee Peng Ng, Frederick L Altice, Adeeba Kamarulzaman   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Intensified tuberculosis case finding amongst vulnerable communities in southern India [PDF]

Public Health Action, 2015
India mainly uses passive case finding to detect tuberculosis (TB) patients through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP). An intensified case finding (ICF) intervention was conducted among vulnerable communities in two districts of Karnataka during July-December 2013; 658 sputum smear-positive TB cases were detected.
K K, Reddy, R, Ananthakrishnan, A G, Jacob, M, Das, P, Isaakidis, A M V, Kumar   +5 more
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Implementing intensified tuberculosis case-finding among street-connected youth and young adults in Kenya [PDF]

Public Health Action, 2016
Street-connected youth and young adults (SCY) suffer a myriad of health problems. In Kenya, SCY are at high risk for tuberculosis (TB) due to their congregate living situations. TB screening is not routinely implemented in SCY and there has been no published literature on the burden of TB in SCY in western Kenya.In 2011, the AMPATH TB Program, an ...
D, Szkwarko, T, Mercer, S, Kimani, P, Braitstein, N, Buziba, E J, Carter   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Yield and Efficiency of Novel Intensified Tuberculosis Case-Finding Algorithms for People Living with HIV [PDF]

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2019
The recommended tuberculosis (TB) intensified case finding (ICF) algorithm for people living with HIV (symptom-based screening followed by Xpert MTB/RIF [Xpert] testing) is insufficiently sensitive and results in unnecessary Xpert testing.To evaluate whether novel ICF algorithms combining C-reactive protein (CRP)-based screening with urine Determine TB-
Yoon, Christina, Semitala, Fred C, Asege, Lucy, Katende, Jane, Mwebe, Sandra, Andama, Alfred O, Atuhumuza, Elly, Nakaye, Martha, Armstrong, Derek T, Dowdy, David W, McCulloch, Charles E, Kamya, Moses, Cattamanchi, Adithya   +12 more
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A comparision of the yield of three tuberculosis screening modalities among people living with HIV: a retrospective quasi-experiemental study

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background The Intensified Case Finding (ICF) tool was approved for TB screening in 2011; however there is still paucity of robust data comparing yields of the different ICF screening modalities. We compared yields of three different screening modalities
Michael Kakinda, Joseph K. B. Matovu, Ekwaro A. Obuku   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antiretroviral treatment as prevention: impact of the 'test and treat' strategy on the tuberculosis epidemic. [PDF]

, 2011
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been remarkably effective in ameliorating Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-associated morbidity and mortality.
Lawn, Stephen D, Wood, Robin
core   +1 more source

Case-finding in coeliac disease should be intensified

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2005
Large-scale screening studies on CD have been published and suggest a prevalence of CD in USA, Europe, Middle-East and Australia of about 1:100. The costs of finding coeliacs hasn't been discussed in these studies. Coeliac disease can be classified to be an important health problem.
Mulder, Chris J. J., Bartelsman, Joep F. W. M.   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Screening and testing for tuberculosis among the HIV-infected: outcomes from a large HIV programme in western Kenya

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background People living with HIV (PLHIV) are at increased risk of tuberculosis (TB). TB is also the leading opportunistic infection contributing to about one-third of deaths in this population.
Philip Owiti, Dickens Onyango, Robina Momanyi, Anthony D. Harries   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating Community-Based Interventions to Reverse the Convergent TB/HIV Epidemics in Rural South Africa. [PDF]

, 2015
The WHO recommends integrating interventions to address the devastating TB/HIV co-epidemics in South Africa, yet integration has been poorly implemented and TB/HIV control efforts need strengthening.
Brooks, Ralph P, Friedland, Gerald H, Galvani, Alison P, Gilbert, Jennifer A, Long, Elisa F, Moll, Anthony P, Shenoi, Sheela V, Townsend, Jeffrey P   +7 more
core   +3 more sources