A clinical score for identifying active tuberculosis while awaiting microbiological results: Development and validation of a multivariable prediction model in sub-Saharan Africa

• Yeonsoo Baik ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ybaik3@jhmi.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7016-0438

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• Hannah M. Rickman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-0744

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• Colleen F. Hanrahan,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4544-4591

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• Lesego Mmolawa,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Nurses Residence, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto, South Africa

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• Peter J. Kitonsa,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2971-216X

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• Tsundzukana Sewelana,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Nurses Residence, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto, South Africa

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• Annet Nalutaaya,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3903-303X

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• Emily A. Kendall,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Limakatso Lebina,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Nurses Residence, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6825-0573

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• Neil Martinson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Nurses Residence, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto, South Africa

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• Achilles Katamba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2347-4183

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• David W. Dowdy

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0481-7475

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