Prevalence and risk factors for latent tuberculosis infection among household contacts of index cases in two South African provinces: Analysis of baseline data from a cluster-randomised trial

• Peter MacPherson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peter.macpherson@lstmed.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0329-9613

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• Limakatso Lebina,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SA MRC Soweto Matlosana Collaborating Centre for HIV/AIDS and TB, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6825-0573

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• Kegaugetswe Motsomi,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SA MRC Soweto Matlosana Collaborating Centre for HIV/AIDS and TB, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Zama Bosch,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SA MRC Soweto Matlosana Collaborating Centre for HIV/AIDS and TB, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Minja Milovanovic,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SA MRC Soweto Matlosana Collaborating Centre for HIV/AIDS and TB, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Andrew Ratsela,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Limpopo, and Limpopo Department of Health, Polokwane, South Africa

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• Sanjay Lala,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Ebrahim Variava,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Klerksdorp Tshepong Hospital Complex, North West Department of Health and University of the Witwatersrand, Polokwane, South Africa

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• Jonathan E. Golub,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins University Center for TB Research, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Emily L. Webb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England, United Kingdom

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• Neil A. Martinson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Johns Hopkins University Center for TB Research, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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