ArticleBMC public health2014
A household survey on screening practices of household contacts of smear positive tuberculosis patients in Vietnam.
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- Child contact management in high tuberculosis burden countries: A mixed-methods systematic review.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
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- Implementation status of household contact tuberculosis screening by health extension workers: assessment findings from programme implementation in Tigray region, northern Ethiopia.BMC health services research · 2020Article
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- Assessment of routine screening of pediatric contacts of adults with tuberculosis disease in Tanzania.Public health action · 2019Article
- House-hold contact tuberculosis screening adherence and associated factors among tuberculosis patients attending at health facilities in Gondar town, northwest, Ethiopia.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Contact screening and risk factors for TB among the household contact of children with active TB: a way to find source case and new TB cases.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Tuberculosis Contact Screening and Isoniazid Preventive Therapy Among Children Under 5 in the Mbeya and Songwe Regions, Tanzania.The East African health research journal · 2018Article
- Stakeholder perspectives for optimization of tuberculosis contact investigation in a high-burden setting.PloS one · 2017Article
- A prospective longitudinal study of tuberculosis among household contacts of smear-positive tuberculosis cases in Lima, Peru.BMC infectious diseases · 2016Article
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backgroundClose contacts of tuberculosis (TB) patients are at increased risk of developing tuberculosis. Although passive contact screening guidelines are incorporated in the national TB control program, currently it is unknown how frequent close contacts are screened for TB in Vietnam. This study assesses current contact screening practices in Vietnam and determines the proportion of household contacts screened of newly registered TB patients.
methodSurvey of household contacts of smear-positive TB patients (index patients) registered for treatment in 2008 in three Vietnamese cities. Households were interviewed in 2010 about screening for TB since treatment registration date of the index patient.
resultsWe interviewed 4,118 household contacts of 1,091 identified index cases. Contact screening mainly relied on self-referral by household contacts. Of the 4,118 household contacts, 474 (11.5%) self-referred for TB screening, while this screening proportion was only 5.5% among contacts under 5 years old (16/293). Sputum examinations were performed in 374 (78.9%) of the screened contacts. Contact screening identified 27 cases of pulmonary TB (0.7%; or 656 cases/100,000 contacts), of which 20 were detected by sputum smear.
conclusionsThe low proportion of household TB contacts screened for TB illustrates the limitations of passive contact screening as currently practiced in Vietnam. Children under 5 years of age are particularly neglected with this approach. Active contact screening with fixed follow-up times of close contacts of newly diagnosed TB patients should be considered in Vietnam, particularly in case of young children and drug-resistant TB.
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