Two Clinical Prediction Tools to Improve Tuberculosis Contact Investigation

We show 2 tools that identify household contacts at high risk of TB disease based on information provided by the patient and the contact.

January 6, 2020
By
Ruoran Li, Francesco Nordio, Chuan-Chin Huang, Carmen Contreras, Roger Calderon, Rosa Yataco, Jerome T Galea, Zibiao Zhang, Mercedes C Becerra, Leonid Lecca, Megan B Murray.

Abstract

We present 2 tools that identify household contacts at high risk for TB disease based on reportable patient and contact information alone. The performance of these tools is comparable to biomarkers that are more costly and less feasible than this approach.

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