Comparison of two active case-finding strategies for community-based diagnosis of symptomatic smear-positive tuberculosis and control of infectious tuberculosis in Harare, Zimbabwe (DETECTB): a cluster-randomised trial.

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Published in Lancet on October 09, 2010

Authors

Elizabeth L Corbett1, Tsitsi Bandason, Trinh Duong, Ethel Dauya, Beauty Makamure, Gavin J Churchyard, Brian G Williams, Shungu S Munyati, Anthony E Butterworth, Peter R Mason, Stanley Mungofa, Richard J Hayes

Author Affiliations

1: Clinical Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. lizcorbett04@gmail.com

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