| Literature DB >> 25189560 |
D Parija1, T K Patra2, A M V Kumar3, B K Swain2, S Satyanarayana3, A Sreenivas1, V K Chadha4, P K Moonan5, J E Oeltmann5.
Abstract
India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control programme employs passive case detection. The new sputum smear-positive case detection rate is less than 70% in Odisha State. During April-June 2012, active case finding (ACF) was conducted through awareness drives and field-based tuberculosis (TB) screening in select communities with the lowest case detection rates. During the campaign, 240 sputum smear-positive TB cases were detected. The number of smear-positive cases detected increased by 11% relative to April-June 2011 in intervention communities compared to an 0.8% increase in non-intervention communities. ACF brought TB services closer to the community and increased TB case detection.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25189560 PMCID: PMC4866500 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.13.0918
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Tuberc Lung Dis ISSN: 1027-3719 Impact factor: 2.373