Direct Observation of Treatment Provided by a Family Member as Compared to Non-Family Member among Children with New Tuberculosis: A Pragmatic, Non-Inferiority, Cluster-Randomized Trial in Gujarat, India

• Paresh Vamanrao Dave ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paresh Vamanrao Dave, Amar Niranjan Shah, Pankaj B. Nimavat

  ¶‡ PVD, ANS, and PBN are co-first authors. JEO and AMK contributed equally as senior mentors.

  Affiliation Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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• Amar Niranjan Shah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paresh Vamanrao Dave, Amar Niranjan Shah, Pankaj B. Nimavat

  * E-mail: dr.amar.mph@gmail.com

  ¶‡ PVD, ANS, and PBN are co-first authors. JEO and AMK contributed equally as senior mentors.

  Affiliation WHO country office for India, New Delhi, India

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• Pankaj B. Nimavat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paresh Vamanrao Dave, Amar Niranjan Shah, Pankaj B. Nimavat

  ¶‡ PVD, ANS, and PBN are co-first authors. JEO and AMK contributed equally as senior mentors.

  Affiliation Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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• Bhavesh B. Modi,

  Affiliation Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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• Kirit R. Pujara,

  Affiliation Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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• Pradip Patel,

  Affiliation Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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• Keshabhai Mehariya,

  Affiliation Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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• Kiran Vaman Rade,

  Affiliation WHO country office for India, New Delhi, India

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• Soma Shekar,

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Institute, Government of India, Bangalore, India

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• Kuldeep S. Sachdeva,

  Affiliation Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• John E. Oeltmann ,

  ¶‡ PVD, ANS, and PBN are co-first authors. JEO and AMK contributed equally as senior mentors.

  Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ajay M. V. Kumar

  ¶‡ PVD, ANS, and PBN are co-first authors. JEO and AMK contributed equally as senior mentors.

  Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

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