Quantifying sputum production success during community-based screening for TB

IJTLD Open. 2024 Nov 1;1(11):522-524. doi: 10.5588/ijtldopen.24.0319. eCollection 2024 Nov.

P J Kitonsa¹, J Sung², D Isooba¹, S Birabwa¹, I Naluyima¹, J Kakeeto¹, W Kamya¹, A Nalutaaya¹, P Biché³, D W Dowdy^{1

3}, A Katamba^{1

4}, E A Kendall^{1

2

3}

¹ Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Walimu, Kampala, Uganda.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.

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Keywords: Uganda; active case-finding; diagnostic yield; sputum testing; tuberculosis.