ArticlePublic health action2021
TB contact tracing for young children: an Australian cascade of care review.
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- Missed opportunity for tuberculosis screening and prevention and the associated factors among child contacts in rural southwestern Uganda.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- Community-Based Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment Among Child and Adolescent Household Contacts in Ethiopia.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Tuberculosis notifications in regional Victoria, Australia: Implications for public health care in a low incidence setting.PloS one · 2023Article
- Pilot study to identify missed opportunities for prevention of childhood tuberculosis.European journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
- Knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding childhood tuberculosis detection and management among health care providers in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Clinical standards for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB infection.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2022Article
- Management of tuberculosis infection in Victorian children: A retrospective clinical audit of factors affecting treatment completion.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate care cascades for programmatic active case finding and latent TB infection (LTBI) management in young child TB contacts (aged <5 years) in Victoria, Australia.
designThis was a retrospective review of public health surveillance data to identify contacts of all pulmonary TB cases notified from 2016 to 2019.
resultsContact tracing identified 574 young child contacts of 251 pulmonary TB cases. Active TB was found in 28 (4.9%) contacts, none of whom had previously received bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination, and 529 were tested for TB infection using the tuberculin skin test (TST). The overall TST positivity was 15.3% (95% CI 0.1-0.2). Among the 574 children, 150 (26.1%) were close contacts of sputum smear-positive cases and 25 (16.7%) of these were not referred to TB clinics. Of the 125 referred, 81 were considered to have LTBI, 79 agreed to commence TB preventive treatment (TPT) and 71 (89.9%) completed TPT. Following completion of TPT, no child was subsequently diagnosed with active TB.
conclusionThere was a high yield from active case finding and uptake of TPT. Notable losses in the cascade of care occurred around referral to tertiary clinics, but high treatment completion rates and good outcomes were found in those prescribed treatment.
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