Design and protocol for a cluster randomised trial of enhanced diagnostics for tuberculosis screening among people living with HIV in hospital in Malawi (CASTLE study)

Rachael M. Burke; Saulos Nyirenda; Hussein H. Twabi; Marriott Nliwasa; Elizabeth Joekes; Naomi Walker; Rose Nyirenda; Ankur Gupta-Wright; Katherine Fielding; Peter MacPherson; Elizabeth L. Corbett

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0261877

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Design and protocol for a cluster randomised trial of enhanced diagnostics for tuberculosis screening among people living with HIV in hospital in Malawi (CASTLE study)

Rachael M. Burke ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Rachael.Burke@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Disease, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2156-5030

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Saulos Nyirenda,

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zomba Central Hospital, Malawi Ministry of Health, Zomba, Malawi
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Hussein H. Twabi,

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Helse Nord TB Initiative, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4473-296X

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Marriott Nliwasa,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Helse Nord TB Initiative, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi
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Elizabeth Joekes,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Naomi Walker,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Rose Nyirenda,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of HIV AIDS, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Ankur Gupta-Wright,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Disease, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, England
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Katherine Fielding,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Peter MacPherson ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L. Corbett

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

Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Disease, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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

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Elizabeth L. Corbett

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L. Corbett

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Disease, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
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Design and protocol for a cluster randomised trial of enhanced diagnostics for tuberculosis screening among people living with HIV in hospital in Malawi (CASTLE study)

Rachael M. Burke,
Saulos Nyirenda,
Hussein H. Twabi,
Marriott Nliwasa,
Elizabeth Joekes,
Naomi Walker,
Rose Nyirenda,
Ankur Gupta-Wright,
Katherine Fielding,
Peter MacPherson

Published: January 10, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261877

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