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SUBMITTER: Kyaw NTT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7157714 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kyaw Nang Thu Thu NTT Sithu Aung A Satyanarayana Srinath S Kumar Ajay M V AMV Thein Saw S Thi Aye Myat AM Wai Pyae Phyo PP Lin Yan Naing YN Kyaw Khine Wut Yee KWY Tun Moe Myint Theingi MMT Oo Myo Minn MM Aung Si Thu ST Harries Anthony D AD
Tropical medicine and infectious disease 20191225 1
Screening of household contacts of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a crucial active TB case-finding intervention. Before 2016, this intervention had not been implemented in Myanmar, a country with a high MDR-TB burden. In 2016, a community-based screening of household contacts of MDR-TB patients using a systematic TB-screening algorithm (symptom screening and chest radiography followed by sputum smear microscopy and Xpert-MTB/RIF assays) was implemented in 33 townships ...[more]