The incidence of TB and MDR-TB in pediatrics and therapeutic options: a systematic review

S Harichander, E Wiafe, KB Mensah, V Bangalee… - Systematic reviews, 2022 - Springer
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is considered one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide
and the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB …

Contact screening and risk factors for TB among the household contact of children with active TB: a way to find source case and new TB cases

M Laghari, SAS Sulaiman, AH Khan, BA Talpur… - BMC public health, 2019 - Springer
Background Source case investigation, for children with tuberculosis (TB), is conducted to
establish the source of infection and to minimize the extent of on-going transmission from …

Prevalence and associated factors of tuberculosis among adult household contacts of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated in public health facilities …

A Adane, M Damena, F Weldegebreal… - Tuberculosis …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Tuberculosis is an infectious airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. It still remains a major public health problem which affects all age groups. Risk …

[PDF][PDF] Active case-finding for tuberculosis in India.

G Prathiksha, B DEVALEENAL DANIEL… - National Medical Journal …, 2019 - nmji.in
Early identification of presumptive tuberculosis (TB) cases through active case-finding (ACF)
would be an important complementary strategy to meet the national urgency in accelerating …

Tuberculosis screening in household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in an urban setting

B Velayutham, L Jayabal, B Watson, S Jagadeesan… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Household contacts (HHC) of tuberculosis (TB) patients are at risk of TB
infection and disease. The study assessed the utility of “Household contact card and …

[HTML][HTML] Prevention of tuberculosis in household members: estimates of children eligible for treatment

Y Hamada, P Glaziou, C Sismanidis… - Bulletin of the World …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To estimate of the number of children younger than 5 years who were household
contacts of people with tuberculosis and were eligible for tuberculosis preventive treatment …

[PDF][PDF] Assessment of family tuberculosis contact screening practice and its associated factors among pulmonary tuberculosis positive patients in South Wollo zone …

T Jember, G Hailu, GT Wassie - International Journal of Public …, 2023 - ssph-journal.org
Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and the associated
factors of family contact screening practice. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional …

PreVenTB trial: protocol for evaluation of efficacy and safety of two vaccines VPM1002 and Immuvac (Mw) in preventing tuberculosis (TB) in healthy household …

M Singh, S Mehendale, R Guleria, R Sarin… - BMJ open, 2024 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the deadliest infectious diseases over
the centuries, killing more people worldwide than any other single infectious disease. There …

Active case finding of tuberculosis among household contacts of newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients: A community-based study from southern Haryana

S Chawla, V Gupta, N Gour, K Grover… - Journal of Family …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Active case-finding is provider-initiated and implies systematic searching for TB
in individuals who would not spontaneously present to a health service, and bringing them …

Yield of tuberculosis among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in Accra, Ghana

SA Ohene, F Bonsu, NN Hanson-Nortey… - Infectious diseases of …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background The End TB Strategy calls for systematic screening of selected high-
risk groups including contacts of tuberculosis (TB) cases to facilitate early TB case detection …