The age-specific burden and household and school-based predictors of child and adolescent tuberculosis infection in rural Uganda.
Carina MarquezMucunguzi AtukundaLaura B BalzerGabriel ChamieJoel KirondeEmmanuel SsemmondoTheodore D RuelFlorence MwangwaKhai Hoan TramTamara D ClarkDalsone KwarisiimaMaya PetersenMoses R KamyaEdwin D CharleboisDiane V HavlirPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Children and adolescents in this area of rural eastern Uganda suffer a significant burden of TB. The majority of TB infections are not explained by a known household TB contact. Our findings underscore the need for community-based TB prevention interventions, especially among mobile youth.