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Impact of active case-finding for tuberculosis on case-notifications in Blantyre, Malawi: A community-based cluster-randomised trial (SCALE).

Active case-finding (ACF) for tuberculosis can help find the "missing millions" with undiagnosed tuberculosis. In a cluster-randomised trial, we investigated impact of ACF on case-notifications in Blantyre, Malawi, where ACF has been intensively implemented following 2014 estimates of ~1,0...

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Main Authors:	Helena R A Feasey (Author), McEwen Khundi (Author), Rebecca Nzawa Soko (Author), Christian Bottomley (Author), Lingstone Chiume (Author), Helen E D Burchett (Author), Marriott Nliwasa (Author), Hussein H Twabi (Author), James A Mpunga (Author), Peter MacPherson (Author), Elizabeth L Corbett (Author)
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Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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