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4 wrz 2013 · Despite a large body of literature on TB transmission modelling, few published studies incorporate contact tracing. There is considerable scope for future analyses to make better use of data and to apply individual based models to facilitate more realistic patterns of infectious contact.
- Contact tracing strategies in household and congregate environments to ...
Disease can be transmitted to other individuals (contacts)...
- Contact tracing strategies in household and congregate environments to ...
25 mar 2022 · The initial contact tracing interview should be done within three days of the TB patient being notified to the public health TB team. Screening of high-priority contacts should begin within the next 7 days.
Although this article does provide evidence that contacts are a high-risk group for developing TB, policy recommendations must consider evidence of the cost-effectiveness of various contact tracing strategies, and also incorporate alternative strategies to enhance case finding.
11 kwi 2012 · Tuberculosis (TB) contacts are people who have close contact with patients with infectious TB. As they are at high risk for infection (and in line with the Stop TB strategy), TB contacts should be investigated systematically and actively for TB infection and disease.
28 sie 2019 · Disease can be transmitted to other individuals (contacts) by infected persons (index cases) before treatment interventions are provided. Exposure to tuberculosis can result in no infection or in active disease (symptomatic and infectious state) or in latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI).
4 wrz 2013 · One strategy for enhancing DOTS is incorporating active case-finding through screening contacts of TB patients as widely used in low-prevalence settings. Predictive models that incorporate population-level effects on transmission provide one means of predicting impacts of such interventions.
Abstract. Contact investigation to identify individuals with tuberculosis and latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important component of tuberculosis control in low tuberculosis incidence countries.
