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Identifying children with tuberculosis among household contacts in The Gambia

DOI

33

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0

References

2016

Year

Uzochukwu Egere, Toyin Togun, Abdou K. Sillah, Francis Mendy, Jacob Otu, Michael Höelscher, Norbert Heinrich, Philip C. Hill, Beate Kampmann
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Abstract

In our community setting, if contact tracing is restricted to symptom screening and immediate households only, nearly half of all co-prevalent TB disease in child contacts would be missed.