Healthcare seeking patterns for TB symptoms: Findings from the first national TB prevalence survey of South Africa, 2017–2019

• Sizulu Moyo ,

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

  * E-mail: smoyo@hsrc.ac.za, sizulumoyo@gmail.com

  Affiliations Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Public Health and Family, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5296-3242

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• Farzana Ismail,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases Division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Nkateko Mkhondo,

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

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Martie van der Walt,

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

  Affiliation South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Sicelo S. Dlamini,

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

  Affiliation National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Thuli Mthiyane,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Inbarani Naidoo,

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

  Affiliation Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Khangelani Zuma,

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

  Affiliation Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Marina Tadolini,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Irwin Law,

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

  Affiliation Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1194-677X

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• Lindiwe Mvusi

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

  Affiliation National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

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