Extending ‘Contact Tracing’ into the Community within a 50-Metre Radius of an Index Tuberculosis Patient Using Xpert MTB/RIF in Urban, Pakistan: Did It Increase Case Detection?

• Razia Fatima,

  Affiliation National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Ejaz Qadeer,

  Affiliation National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Aashifa Yaqoob ,

  * E-mail: aashifa.yaqoob@gmail.com

  Affiliation National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Mahboob ul Haq,

  Affiliation National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Suman S. Majumdar,

  Affiliation Centre for International Health, Burnet Institute, Australia

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• Hemant D. Shewade,

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS), Sewagram, Wardha, India, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

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• Robert Stevens,

  Affiliation Mott MacDonald, London, United Kingdom

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• Jacob Creswell,

  Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Nasir Mahmood,

  Affiliation National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Ajay M. V. Kumar

  Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France

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