Comparison of two active case-finding strategies for community-based diagnosis of symptomatic smear-positive tuberculosis and control of infectious tuberculosis in Harare, Zimbabwe (DETECTB): A cluster-randomised trial

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9748, 2010, Pages 1244-1253

  Corbett, Elizabeth L ^a,b   Bandason, Tsitsi ^b   Duong, Trinh ^a   Dauya, Ethel ^b   Makamure, Beauty ^b   Churchyard, Gavin J ^c   Williams, Brian G ^d   Munyati, Shungu S ^b   Butterworth, Anthony E ^a,b   Mason, Peter R ^b,e   Mungofa, Stanley ^f   Hayes, Richard J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (Zimbabwe)

^c AURUM INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^f Harare City Health Department   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; ZIMBABWE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPLICATION; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; PREVALENCE; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 77958015167     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61425-0     Document Type: Article

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