Community-wide Screening for Tuberculosis in a High-Prevalence Setting

Tuberculosis transmission continues to be a major public health challenge. In this cluster-randomized, controlled trial conducted in Vietnam, active community-wide screening for tuberculosis over 4 years is shown to decrease the prevalence of tuberculosis.

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2019-10, Vol.381 (14), p.1347-1357
Hauptverfasser:	Marks, Guy B, Nguyen, Nhung V, Nguyen, Phuong T.B, Nguyen, Thu-Anh, Nguyen, Hoa B, Tran, Khoa H, Nguyen, Son V, Luu, Khanh B, Tran, Duc T.T, Vo, Qui T.N, Le, Oanh T.T, Nguyen, Yen H, Do, Vu Q, Mason, Paul H, Nguyen, Van-Anh T, Ho, Jennifer, Sintchenko, Vitali, Nguyen, Linh N, Britton, Warwick J, Fox, Greg J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acids Adolescent Adult Child Children Clinical trials Community Health Services Cost control Endemic Diseases - prevention & control Female Hospitals Humans Intention to Treat Analysis Interferon Laboratories Male Mass Screening - methods Medical research Mycobacterium tuberculosis - genetics Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques Participation Performance evaluation Population Prevalence Questionnaires Sputum Sputum - microbiology Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - prevention & control Vietnam - epidemiology Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	Tuberculosis transmission continues to be a major public health challenge. In this cluster-randomized, controlled trial conducted in Vietnam, active community-wide screening for tuberculosis over 4 years is shown to decrease the prevalence of tuberculosis.
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMoa1902129