Contact investigation of tuberculosis in Brunei Darussalam: Evaluation and risk factor analysis.

Li Ling ChawRafizah Abdul HamidKai Shing KohKyaw Thu

Published in: BMJ open respiratory research (2022)

LTBI burden is disproportionately high towards foreign nationals, with higher odds of LTBI diagnosis but lower odds of treatment initiation. Determining the reasons of not initiating LTBI treatment will be useful to help improve LTBI treatment uptake. Establishing digital databases and building TB laboratory capacity for molecular typing would be useful to determine the contribution of LTBI or reactivation towards TB incidence in Brunei.

Keyphrases

mycobacterium tuberculosis
emergency department
machine learning
deep learning