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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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Tuberculosis screening among pregnant women attending a tertiary care hospital in Puducherry, South India: is it worth the effort?

Global Health Action, 2019
Background: The national tuberculosis (TB) programme in India recommends screening all pregnant women for TB, but this is rarely implemented. We carried out systematic TB screening among women attending the antenatal clinic of a tertiary care hospital in
Mathavaswami Vijayageetha, Ajay MV Kumar, Jayalakshmy Ramakrishnan, Sonali Sarkar, Dasari Papa, Kedar Mehta, Noyal M Joseph, Manju Rajaram, Sathish Rajaa, Palanivel Chinnakali   +9 more
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Health Worker Practices, Facilitators and Barriers towards the Intensified Case-Finding Tuberculosis Screening Tool in Uganda [PDF]

, 2020
AbstractIntroductionAlthough the Tuberculosis (TB) Intensified Case Finding (ICF) tool was introduced in 2011, only 15.7% of the estimated 35 million people living with HIV were screened for TB in 2013. We explored the facilitators, barriers and health care workers’ practices regarding use of the ICF tool in TB screening.MethodsWe conducted a ...
Kakinda, Michael, Matovu, Joseph K.B, Obuku, Ekwaro A   +2 more
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Laboratory confirmation of Buruli ulcer disease in Togo, 2007-2010. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
BACKGROUND: Since the early 1990s more than 1,800 patients with lesions suspicious for Buruli ulcer disease (BUD) have been reported from Togo. However, less than five percent of these were laboratory confirmed.
Gisela Bretzel, Kristina Lydia Huber, Basil Kobara, Marcus Beissner, Ebekalisai Piten, Karl-Heinz Herbinger, Franz Xaver Wiedemann, Komi Amekuse, Abiba Banla Kere, Kerstin Helfrich, Erna Fleischmann, Thomas Löscher, Adolf Diefenhardt, Jörg Nitschke   +13 more
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Point-of-care C-reactive protein-based tuberculosis screening for people living with HIV: a diagnostic accuracy study. [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundSymptom-based screening for tuberculosis is recommended for all people living with HIV. This recommendation results in unnecessary Xpert MTB/RIF testing in many individuals living in tuberculosis-endemic areas and thus poor implementation of ...
Andama, Alfred O, Armstrong, Derek T, Asege, Lucy, Atuhumuza, Elly, Cattamanchi, Adithya, Davis, J Luke, Dowdy, David W, Huang, Laurence, Kamya, Moses, Katende, Jane, Mwebe, Sandra, Semitala, Fred C, Yoon, Christina   +12 more
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Risk factors for inadequate TB case finding in Rural Western Kenya: a comparison of actively and passively identified TB patients. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The findings of a prevalence survey conducted in western Kenya, in a population with 14.9% HIV prevalence suggested inadequate case finding. We found a high burden of infectious and largely undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), that a quarter of the ...
Anna H Van't Hoog, Barbara J Marston, John G Ayisi, Janet A Agaya, Odylia Muhenje, Lazarus O Odeny, John Hongo, Kayla F Laserson, Martien W Borgdorff   +8 more
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Routine Ultrasonography for Intensified Tuberculosis Case Finding in High Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Tuberculosis (TB) Burdened Countries

Journal of Medical Ultrasound, 2022
Sonography has proven to be valuable diagnostic imaging equipment in the work-up of patients infected with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis (TB) coinfection. An extensive literature search was conducted between 1994 and 2021 for original peer-reviewed articles in the English language on ultrasound ...
Luntsi, Geofery, Ugwu, Anthony Chukwuka, Ahmadu, Muhammad Sani, Ohagwu, Christopher Chukwuemeka, Sidi, Mohammed, Ochie, Kalu, Mshelia, Emmanuel Peter, Erim, Akwa Egom, Abubakar, Umar, Nkubli, Flavious Bobuin, Nwobi, Chigozie Ivor, Ayogu, Eberechukwu   +11 more
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Willingness for Active Case Finding of Tuberculosis among Community Pharmacists in Puducherry

Indian Journal of Public Health
Background: In India, there is significant attrition in the cascade of care for tuberculosis (TB) in the public health sector. Pharmacy being the first point of contact for the majority holds considerable potential in reducing this attrition. Objectives:
Dhanajayan Govindan, Palanivel Chinnakali, Sonali Sarkar, Govindarajan Soundappan   +3 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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Optical study of flow and combustion in an HCCI engine with negative valve overlap [PDF]

, 2006
One of the most widely used methods to enable Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) combustion is using negative valve overlapping to trap a sufficient quantity of hot residual gas. The characteristics of air motion with specially designed valve
Megaritis, T, Richardson, S, Wilson, TS, Wyszynski, ML, Xu, H   +4 more
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