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Intensified tuberculosis case finding among malnourished children in nutritional rehabilitation centres of Karnataka, India: missed opportunities.

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundSevere acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most serious form of malnutrition affecting children under-five and is associated with many infectious diseases including Tuberculosis (TB).
Prashant G Bhat, Ajay M V Kumar, Balaji Naik, Srinath Satyanarayana, Deepak Kg, Sreenivas A Nair, Suryakanth Md, Einar Heldal, Donald A Enarson, Anthony J Reid   +9 more
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Yield of intensified tuberculosis case-finding activities using Xpert ^® MTB/RIF among risk groups in Nepal [PDF]

Public Health Action, 2016
Setting: Twenty-two districts of Nepal, where intensified case-finding (ICF) activities for tuberculosis (TB) were implemented among risk groups under the TB REACH initiative in collaboration with the National TB Programme from July 2013 to November 2015.
Khanal, S, Baral, S, Shrestha, P, Puri, M, Kandel, S, Lamichanne, B, Elsey, H, Brouwer, M, Goel, S, Chinnakali, P   +9 more
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Can intensified tuberculosis case finding efforts at nutrition rehabilitation centers lead to pediatric case detection in Bihar, India?

Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 2016
Seven district-level Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs) in Bihar, India provide clinical and nutritional care for children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM).To assess whether intensified case finding (ICF) strategies at NRCs can lead to pediatric case detection among SAM children and link them to TB treatment under the Revised National ...
Rajeev R, Pathak, Bal Krishna, Mishra, Patrick K, Moonan, Sreenivas A, Nair, Ajay M V, Kumar, Mohit P, Gandhi, Shamim, Mannan, Smita, Ghosh   +7 more
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Intensified tuberculosis and HIV surveillance in a prison in Northeast India: Implementation research.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Structural and individual level factors in prisons create challenges towards detection and management of HIV/tuberculosis. WHO and India's HIV/tuberculosis control programs recommend intensified case finding in prisons. Low HIV and tuberculosis detection
Tarun Bhatnagar, Malsawmtluangi Ralte, Lalhriatzuali Ralte, Chawnglungmuana, L Sundaramoorthy, Lily Chhakchhuak   +5 more
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Tuberculosis control in a South African community with high HIV prevalence: the role of intensified case-finding and antiretroviral therapy [PDF]

, 2013
This thesis investigates active TB case finding and antiretroviral therapy for\ud tuberculosis control in a setting with high HIV prevalence in Cape Town, South\ud Africa. Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have seen a worsening tuberculosis\ud epidemic since the 1990s.
Kranzer, Katharina
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Intensified or Routine Case Finding for Pulmonary Tuberculosis among HIV-Infected Patients: Which is Better? [PDF]

Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System, 2015
Background: Intensified strategy includes special attention to the symptoms such as cough (more than two weeks), fever (more than three weeks), night sweats (more than three weeks), and weight loss (more than 3 kg per month). If any of the above symptoms
Hamidreza Tabatabaee, Parvin Afsar-kazerooni, Yousef Alimohamadi, Alireza Hasanabadi, Fatemeh Khavandegaran, Katayoun Tayeri, Abbas Rezaianzadeh, Jafar Hasanzadeh   +7 more
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Reaching the first 90 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a programme to optimise HIV case finding through intensified index testing [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2020
Background: To meet the first aim of the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets, to help end the global HIV epidemic, 90% of people living with HIV should know their status by 2020. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), however, UNAIDS estimates that less than
Sarina Dane, MPH, Ayan Jha, MBBS, Desire Dibulundu, Yves Ilunga, Tania Tchissambou, Bibola Ngalamulume-Roberts, MPH, Kieran Hartsough, MPH, Faustin Malele Bazola, MD, Ellen Morrison, MPH, Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, Juliana Soares Linn, MD   +10 more
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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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Tuberculosis case finding using population-based disease surveillance platforms in urban and rural Kenya

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Tuberculosis (TB) case finding is an important component of TB control because it can reduce transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) through prompt detection and treatment of infectious patients.
Godfrey Bigogo, Kevin Cain, Diana Nyole, Geoffrey Masyongo, Joshua Auko Auko, Newton Wamola, Albert Okumu, Janet Agaya, Joel Montgomery, Martien Borgdorff, Deron Burton   +10 more
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Outpatient-department-based intensified tuberculosis case-finding activity in the tertiary care hospitals in West Bengal, India.: An observational study on the yields and outputs

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
Background: Improved tuberculosis (TB) case detection using intensified case finding (ICF) is one of the cornerstones of the Stop TB Strategy. A Non-Government Organization (NGO)-led project took place in two tertiary care hospitals of West Bengal for ...
Arista Lahiri, Soumyajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Ayan Ghosh, Iman Bhakta, Swarna Abhiman Ramteke, Abhijit Dey   +5 more
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