Comparative meta-analysis of tuberculosis contact investigation interventions in eleven high burden countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Blok, Lucie ^a   Sahu, Suvanand ^b   Creswell, Jacob ^b   Alba, Sandra ^a   Stevens, Robert ^c   Bakker, Mirjam I ^a  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b Stop TB Partnership   (Switzerland)

^c MOTT MACDONALD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; META ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TUBERCULOSIS; AFRICA; ASIA; CONTACT EXAMINATION; COUGH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; ASIA; CONTACT TRACING; COUGH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84926392034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119822     Document Type: Review

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