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1. Patient Diagnostic Rate as Indicator of Tuberculosis Case Detection, South Africa.

Author

Claassens, Mareli M., Schalkwyk, Cari van, Dunbar, Rory, Ayles, Helen, Beyers, Nulda, and van Schalkwyk, Cari

Subjects
*TUBERCULOSIS diagnosis, *TUBERCULOSIS patients, *TUBERCULOSIS research, *HIV-positive persons, *TUBERCULOSIS epidemiology, *HIV infection epidemiology, *MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis, *PUBLIC health surveillance, *DISEASE prevalence, *MIXED infections
Abstract

To address the uncertainty of the indirectly measured tuberculosis case detection rate, we used survey data stratified by HIV status to calculate the patient diagnostic rate, a directly measurable indicator, in 8 communities in South Africa. Rates were lower among HIV-negative than HIV-positive persons. Tuberculosis programs should focus on HIV-negative persons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016
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