Intensified household contact tracing, prevention and treatment support versus enhanced standard of care for contacts of tuberculosis cases in South Africa: study protocol for a household cluster-randomised trial.

Peter MacPhersonEmily L WebbEbrahim VariavaSanjay G LalaMinja MilovanovicAndrew RatselaLimakatso LebinaAnthony KinghornNeil A Martinson

Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2019)

ISRCTN16006202 (01/02/2017: retrospectively registered) and NHREC4399 (11/04/2016: prospectively registered). Protocol version: 4.0 (date: 18th January 2018).

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