Impact on Patients’ Treatment Outcomes of XpertMTB/RIF Implementation for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: Follow-Up of a Stepped-Wedge Randomized Clinical Trial

• Anete Trajman ,

  * E-mail: atrajman@gmail.com

  Affiliations Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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• Betina Durovni,

  Affiliations Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro City Health Secretariat, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Valeria Saraceni,

  Affiliations Rio de Janeiro City Health Secretariat, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr. Heitor Dourado Vieira Foundation of Tropical Medicine, Manaus, Brazil

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• Alexandre Menezes,

  Affiliation Global Health Strategies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos,

  Affiliations Dr. Heitor Dourado Vieira Foundation of Tropical Medicine, Manaus, Brazil, Amazonas State University, Manaus, Brazil

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• Frank Cobelens,

  Affiliations Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, KNCV Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands

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• Susan Van den Hof

  Affiliations Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, KNCV Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands

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