Screening for tuberculosis among 2381 household contacts of sputum-smear-positive cases in The Gambia

Dolly Jackson-Sillaha, Philip C. Hill a,∗, Annette Foxa, Roger H. Brookesa,Simon A. Donkora, Moses D. Lugosa, Stephen R.C. Howiea,Katherine R. Fielding b, Adama Jallowc, Christian Lienhardtd,Tumani Corraha, Richard A. Adegbolaa, Keith P. McAdama Summary Contact investigation is a key component of tuberculosis (TB) control in developed,but not developing, countries. We aimed to measure the prevalence of TB among householdcontacts of sputum-smear-positive TB cases in The Gambia and to asses ...

Identification of tuberculosis cases by port health screening in Essex 1997–2003

Sally Millership and Amelia Cummins AbstractBetween 1997 and 2003 an annual average of 1867 newentrants seen at the port of arrival were notified to thecommunicable disease teams who now form the EssexHealth Protection Unit. We examined the number of individualswho made contact with health services by linkingport health and tuberculosis databases with combinationsof surname, forename and date of birth the number of newentrants developing tuberculosis. We also searched paperrecords for all incide ...

Studies in Vertical and Horizontal Well-Flow Behavior in Cases of Permeability Anisotropy

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