Active contact tracing beyond the household in multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Vietnam: a cohort study

• Main Authors: Thi Thanh Thuy Hoang (Author), Viet Nhung Nguyen (Author), Ngoc Sy Dinh (Author), Guy Thwaites (Author), Thu Anh Nguyen (Author), H. Rogier van Doorn (Author), Frank Cobelens (Author), Heiman F. L. Wertheim (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Currently in Vietnam contact tracing for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) entails passive case finding among symptomatic household contacts who present themselves for diagnosis. Close contacts of MDR-TB cases are therefore not identified adequately. We assessed the added...