Methods Sixteen in-depth interviews were conducted with key informants including healthcare providers and administrators who participated in the trial in Matlosana, South Africa. The participants' experience with symptom-based screening, study implementation strategies, and ongoing challenges with child ...
We conducted a study to determine the prevalence of active \{TB\} and performance of specific screening tests for \{TB\} in adolescents in a high burden setting. Adolescents aged 12–18 years were recruited from high schools in a rural town in South Africa. Participants were screened for ...
"Screening forM tuberculosisinfection and provision of IPT in young children is a highly cost-effective intervention," the study authors write. "Screening without testing forM tuberculosisinfection is the most cost-effective strategy in 0–2-year-old children and the preferred strategy in 3–5-year...
South Africa has enjoyed some measure of success in TB case detection through the national roll-out of Xpert MTB/RIF testing. This coupled with additional measures such as universal TB symptom screening for all patients at all health facilities, and urine LAM testing among known HIV infected pati...
Participants were tested for HIV and all newly-identified HIV-infected participants received TB screening. HIV-infected participants were either in the intervention group, and were assigned to a HSN, or the control group, the current usual care in Durban (Figure 1). Nine months following ...
IGRA done as a screening test or during contact investigation Suspicion for TB is higher in patients who have fever, cough lasting > 2 to 3 weeks, night sweats, weight loss, and/or lymphadenopathy and in patients with possible TB exposure (eg, via infectious family members, friends, or othe...
Screening was offered to people who had had contact with the infected cats. Following further tests, a total of two cases of active TB were identified. Molecular analysis showed that M. bovis taken from the infected cats matched the strain of TB found in the human cases, indicating that the...
South Africa is increasingly offering screening, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), and especially drug-resistant TB, at the primary care level. Nosocomial transmission of TB within primary health facilities is a growing concern in South Africa, and globally. We explore here how TB ...
The primary screening method for TB infection (active or latent) is the Mantoux tuberculin skin test with purified protein derivative (PPD). An in vitro blood test based on interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) with antigens specific for M tuberculosis can also be used to screen for latent TB...
Dropout between screening and ART initiation: a cohort study in Karonga, Malawi p pBackground/p pRoutine ART programme statistics generally only provide information about individuals who start treatment. We aimed to investigate the out... N Mcgrath,JR Glynn,J Saul,... - 《Bmc Public Health》...