Cost-effectiveness of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube versus tuberculin skin test for diagnosis and treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in primary health care workers in Brazil

• Rafaela Borge Loureiro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Social Medicine (IMS), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, Laboratory of Epidemiology (Lab-Epi), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, ES, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5173-6160

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• Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel,

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

  Affiliations Laboratory of Epidemiology (Lab-Epi), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, ES, Brazil, Graduate Program in Collective Health (PPGSC), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, ES, Brazil

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• Rosangela Caetano,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy, Planning and Administration, Institute of Social Medicine (IMS), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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• Renata Lyrio Peres,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Laboratory of Epidemiology (Lab-Epi), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, ES, Brazil, Center of Infectious Diseases (NDI), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, ES, Brazil

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• Geisa Fregona,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology (Lab-Epi), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, ES, Brazil

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• Jonathan E. Golub,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• José Ueleres Braga

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ueleres@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Social Medicine (IMS), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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