Role of community-based active case finding in screening tuberculosis in Yunnan province of China

• Main Authors: Jin-Ou Chen (Author), Yu-Bing Qiu (Author), Zulma Vanessa Rueda (Author), Jing-Long Hou (Author), Kun-Yun Lu (Author), Liu-Ping Chen (Author), Wei-Wei Su (Author), Li Huang (Author), Fei Zhao (Author), Tao Li (Author), Lin Xu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The barriers to access diagnosis and receive treatment, in addition to insufficient case identification and reporting, lead to tuberculosis (TB) spreads in communities, especially among hard-to-reach populations. This study evaluated a community-based active case finding (ACF) st...