Comparing Tuberculosis Diagnostic Yield in Smear/Culture and Xpert^® MTB/RIF-Based Algorithms Using a Non-Randomised Stepped-Wedge Design

• Pren Naidoo ,

  * E-mail: pnaidoo@icon.co.za

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Rory Dunbar,

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Carl Lombard,

  Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Elizabeth du Toit,

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Judy Caldwell,

  Affiliation City of Cape Town Health Directorate, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Anne Detjen,

  Affiliation The International Union against TB and Lung Disease, Paris, France

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• S. Bertel Squire,

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Donald A. Enarson,

  Affiliation The International Union against TB and Lung Disease, Paris, France

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• Nulda Beyers

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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