Tuberculosis screening for pediatric household contacts in India: Time to adapt newer strategies under the National TB Elimination Programme!

• Kiran Chawla ,

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

  * E-mail: kiran.chawla@manipal.edu (KC); nayanagowda1906@gmail.com (NS)

  ¶‡ KC and SBN are contributed equally as first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal, Manipal, Karnataka, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4010-4088

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• Sharath Burugina Nagaraja ,

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

  ¶‡ KC and SBN are contributed equally as first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6599-5753

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• Nayana Siddalingaiah ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kiran.chawla@manipal.edu (KC); nayanagowda1906@gmail.com (NS)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Chidananda Sanju,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation District Tuberculosis Office, Udupi, Karnataka, India

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• Uday Kumar,

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

  Affiliation Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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• Vishnu Prasad Shenoy,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Suresh Shastri,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Tuberculosis Office, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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• Anil Singarajipur

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Tuberculosis Office, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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