| Title |
Transmission of Tuberculosis in Resource-Limited Settings
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Current HIV/AIDS Reports, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11904-013-0164-x |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tejaswi Kompala, Sheela V. Shenoi, Gerald Friedland |
| Abstract |
Unrecognized transmission is a major contributor to ongoing TB epidemics in high-burden, resource-constrained settings. Limitations in diagnosis, treatment, and infection control in health-care and community settings allow for continued transmission of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB, particularly in regions of high HIV prevalence. Health-care facilities are common sites of TB transmission. Improved implementation of infection control practices appropriate for the local setting and in combination, has been associated with reduced transmission. Community settings account for the majority of TB transmission and deserve increased focus. Strengthening and intensifying existing high-yield strategies, including household contact tracing, can reduce onward TB transmission. Recent studies documenting high transmission risk community sites and strategies for community-based intensive case finding hold promise for feasible, effective transmission reduction. Infection control in community settings has been neglected and requires urgent attention. Developing and implementing improved strategies for decreasing transmission to children, within prisons and of drug-resistant TB are needed. |
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| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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| South Africa | 2 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 208 | 98% |
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| Student > Master | 41 | 19% |
| Researcher | 32 | 15% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 21 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 8% |
| Other | 39 | 18% |
| Unknown | 42 | 20% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 73 | 34% |
| Social Sciences | 17 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 5% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 7 | 3% |
| Other | 38 | 18% |
| Unknown | 52 | 24% |
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