Effect of patient-delivered household contact tracing and prevention for tuberculosis: A household cluster-randomised trial in Malawi

• Kruger Kaswaswa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kruger Kaswaswa, Peter MacPherson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kkaswaswa@gmail.com

  Affiliations College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Malawi National TB Control Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7025-4992

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• Peter MacPherson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kruger Kaswaswa, Peter MacPherson

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Moses Kumwenda,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

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• James Mpunga,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malawi National TB Control Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Deus Thindwa,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Marriott Nliwasa,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway

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• Mphatso Mwapasa,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Jon Odland,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Tamiwe Tomoka,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Geoffrey Chipungu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Mavuto Mukaka ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Elizabeth L. Corbett

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliations College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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