ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2025
Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infectiousness of Persons Identified Through Active and Passive Case-finding in a High-burden Setting.
Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Diagnostic Performance of the Pluslife MiniDock MTB and Molbio MTB Ultima Assays to Detect Tuberculosis From Tongue and Sputum Swabs Among Outpatients and in Active Case Finding in Cameroon.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026Article
- The hidden burden: a regional study revealing the substantial burden and distinct epidemiology of asymptomatic pulmonary tuberculosis in Southern China.BMC public health · 2026Article
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Background: The role of active case-finding (ACF) in improving tuberculosis (TB) prevention and care depends on the infectiousness of persons with undiagnosed TB and the accuracy of screening strategies. To compare undiagnosed community dwellers to persons presenting for healthcare, we evaluated clinicodemographic and microbiologic characteristics, cough aerosol culture (CAC) status, and household contact (HHC) QuantiFERON-Plus (QFT) status by case-finding approach in adults with pulmonary TB. Methods: We enrolled 388 Kenyan adults with GeneXpert (excluding trace) and/or culture-confirmed, untreated TB through healthcare presentation (passive case-finding [PCF]; 87%) or ACF (community-based prevalence survey). Interventions included cough aerosol sampling and HHC QFT testing. We performed mixed-effect logistic regression to predict transmission, clustered on index participants. Results: World Health Organization-recommended screening symptoms (W4SS) were more common in the PCF cohort (99% vs 73%, Conclusions: Our findings suggest that ACF may detect a smaller proportion of CAC-positive persons with TB than PCF.
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