Spatial distribution of people diagnosed with tuberculosis through routine and active case finding: a community-based study in Kampala, Uganda

• Main Authors: Katherine O. Robsky (Author), Peter J. Kitonsa (Author), James Mukiibi (Author), Olga Nakasolya (Author), David Isooba (Author), Annet Nalutaaya (Author), Phillip P. Salvatore (Author), Emily A. Kendall (Author), Achilles Katamba (Author), David Dowdy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Routine tuberculosis (TB) notifications are geographically heterogeneous, but their utility in predicting the location of undiagnosed TB cases is unclear. We aimed to identify small-scale geographic areas with high TB notification rates based on routinely collected data and to ev...