Results 1 to 10 of about 861,514 (275)

Are treatment outcomes of patients with tuberculosis detected by active case finding different from those detected by passive case finding? [PDF]

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2020
Context: India has adopted active case finding (ACF) as an additional strategy to find its missing tuberculosis (TB) cases since 2017. Treatment outcomes of patients identified through ACF may be similar or different from those detected through routine ...
Mahendra Singh, Karuna D Sagili, Jaya P Tripathy, Surekha Kishore, Yogesh A Bahurupi, Ajay Kumar, Vagish Kala, Vikas Yadav, Shikha Murmu   +8 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Outcome of tuberculosis treatment in HIV-positive adults diagnosed through active versus passive case-finding [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2015
Background: The World Health Organization strongly recommends regular screening for tuberculosis (TB) in HIV-positive individuals. Objective: To compare the outcome of anti-tuberculosis treatment (ATT) in HIV-positive adults diagnosed with TB through ...
Taye T. Balcha, Sten Skogmar, Erik Sturegård, Per Björkman, Niclas Winqvist   +4 more
doaj   +7 more sources

Cost-effectiveness analysis of adding tuberculosis household contact investigation on passive case-finding strategy in Southwestern Uganda. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
IntroductionThe standard passive case-finding strategy implemented by most developing countries is inadequate to detect new cases of Tuberculosis. A household contact investigation is an alternative approach.
Dickens Odongo, Bernard Omech, Alfred Acanga   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Malaria in Mazandaran, Northern Iran: Passive Case Finding During 1997-2012 [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2012
Background: Malaria is one of the most important parasitic diseases in tropical and temperate regions. The aim of this study was to determine the trend of malaria in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran during 1997-2012.
S Ghaffari, SA Mahdavi, Z Moulana, S Mouodi, H Karimi-Nia, M Bayani, N Kalantari   +6 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Stigma, depression, and quality of life among people with pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed through active and passive case finding in Nepal: a prospective cohort study [PDF]

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
doaj   +6 more sources

Patient characteristics, health seeking and delays among new sputum smear positive TB patients identified through active case finding when compared to passive case finding in India. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundAxshya SAMVAD is an active tuberculosis (TB) case finding (ACF) strategy under project Axshya (Axshya meaning 'free of TB' and SAMVAD meaning 'conversation') among marginalized and vulnerable populations in 285 districts of India.ObjectivesTo ...
Hemant Deepak Shewade, Vivek Gupta, Srinath Satyanarayana, Prabhat Pandey, U N Bajpai, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Soundappan Kathirvel, Sripriya Pandurangan, Subrat Mohanty, Vaibhav Haribhau Ghule, Karuna D Sagili, Banuru Muralidhara Prasad, Sudhi Nath, Priyanka Singh, Kamlesh Singh, Ramesh Singh, Gurukartick Jayaraman, P Rajeswaran, Binod Kumar Srivastava, Moumita Biswas, Gayadhar Mallick, Om Prakash Bera, K N Sahai, Lakshmi Murali, Sanjeev Kamble, Madhav Deshpande, Naresh Kumar, Sunil Kumar, A James Jeyakumar Jaisingh, Ali Jafar Naqvi, Prafulla Verma, Mohammed Salauddin Ansari, Prafulla C Mishra, G Sumesh, Sanjeeb Barik, Vijesh Mathew, Manas Ranjan Singh Lohar, Chandrashekhar S Gaurkhede, Ganesh Parate, Sharifa Yasin Bale, Ishwar Koli, Ashwin Kumar Bharadwaj, G Venkatraman, K Sathiyanarayanan, Jinesh Lal, Ashwini Kumar Sharma, Raghuram Rao, Ajay M V Kumar, Sarabjit Singh Chadha   +48 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Wherever there is poverty – active and passive case finding to address neglect of noma in Mozambique [PDF]

BMJ Global Health
Introduction Noma is a rapidly progressing, disfiguring orofacial necrotising infection that primarily affects children living in poverty. To date, there are no primary data reporting noma in Mozambique.
Gemma Moncunill, Eldo Elobolobo, Carlos Chaccour, Claire Jeantet, Marta Ribes, Abdala Atumane, Fernando Padama, Filipe Abrigio, Milagre Andurage, Yosney Arbolaez, Tairo Sumine, Luis Transval, Marta Mapengo   +12 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Active versus passive case finding for tuberculosis in marginalised and vulnerable populations in India: comparison of treatment outcomes [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2019
Background: Community-based active case finding (ACF) for tuberculosis (TB) implemented among marginalised and vulnerable populations in 285 districts of India resulted in reduction of diagnosis delay and prevalence of catastrophic costs due to TB ...
Hemant Deepak Shewade, Vivek Gupta, Srinath Satyanarayana, Sunil Kumar, Prabhat Pandey, U. N. Bajpai, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Soundappan Kathirvel, Sripriya Pandurangan, Subrat Mohanty, Vaibhav Haribhau Ghule, Karuna D. Sagili, Banuru Muralidhara Prasad, Priyanka Singh, Kamlesh Singh, Gurukartick Jayaraman, P. Rajeswaran, Moumita Biswas, Gayadhar Mallick, Ali Jafar Naqvi, Ashwin Kumar Bharadwaj, K. Sathiyanarayanan, Aniruddha Pathak, Nisha Mohan, Raghuram Rao, Ajay M. V. Kumar, Sarabjit Singh Chadha   +26 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Are patients with pulmonary tuberculosis identified by active and by passive case detection different? A cross-sectional study in Pakistan.

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
Objectives: Our objective was to compare the characteristics of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) identified through “extended contact screening” (ECS) with those of patients identified through routine passive case finding (PCF).
Mahboob Ul Haq, Sven G. Hinderaker, Razia Fatima, Ejaz Qadeer, Hammad Habib, Kashif Hussain, Abdul Wali Khan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of community active case-finding strategies for detection of tuberculosis in Cambodia: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2020
Background Cambodia has made notable progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). However, these gains are impeded by a significant proportion of undiagnosed cases.
Alvin Kuo Jing Teo, Kiesha Prem, Konstantin Evdokimov, Chetra Ork, Sothearith Eng, Sovannary Tuot, Monyrath Chry, Tan Eang Mao, Li Yang Hsu, Siyan Yi   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source