Tuberculosis contact screening and isoniazid preventive therapy in a South Indian district: operational issues for programmatic consideration

Under India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), all household contacts of sputum smear positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) patients are screened for TB. In the absence of active TB disease, household contacts aged

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2011-07, Vol.6 (7), p.e22500-e22500
Hauptverfasser:	Pothukuchi, Madhavi, Nagaraja, Sharath Burugina, Kelamane, Santosha, Satyanarayana, Srinath, Shashidhar, Babu, Sai, Dewan, Puneet, Wares, Fraser
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Biology Body weight Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Cities - statistics & numerical data Contact Tracing - methods Disease prevention Health screening Health services Households Housing Humans India Infections Isoniazid Isoniazid - pharmacology Medical diagnosis Medical research Medicine Microscopy Patients Pediatrics Public health Public Health Practice - statistics & numerical data Rural areas Rural Population - statistics & numerical data Screening Smear Sputum Sputum - microbiology Tablets Therapy Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - prevention & control Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - transmission
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Zusammenfassung:	Under India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), all household contacts of sputum smear positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) patients are screened for TB. In the absence of active TB disease, household contacts aged
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0022500