Community-wide Screening for Tuberculosis in a High-Prevalence Setting.
Guy B MarksNhung V NguyenThi Bich Phuong NguyenThu-Anh NguyenHoa B NguyenKhoa H TranSon V NguyenKhanh B LuuDuc T T TranQui T N VoOanh T T LeYen H NguyenVu Q DoPaul H MasonVan-Anh T NguyenJennifer HoVitali SintchenkoLinh N NguyenWarwick J BrittonGreg J FoxPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2019)
Three years of community-wide screening in persons 15 years of age or older who resided in Ca Mau Province, Vietnam, resulted in a lower prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in the fourth year than standard passive case detection alone. (Funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council; ACT3 Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry number, ACTRN12614000372684.).