Evaluation of radiological capacity and usage in paediatric TB diagnosis: A mixed-method protocol of a comparative study in Mozambique, South Africa and Spain

• Isabelle Munyangaju,

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

  Affiliations Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Medicine and Translational Research Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7190-6016

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• Benedita José,

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

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Program, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

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• Ridwaan Esmail,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Imaging Division, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

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• Megan Palmer,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Begoña Santiago,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Gregorio Marañón Research Health Institute (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain

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• Alicia Hernanz-Lobo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Gregorio Marañón Research Health Institute (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Translational Research Network in Pediatric Infectious Diseases (RITIP), Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9560-9104

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• Crimenia Mutemba,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Program, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

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• Patricia Perez,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Paediatric TB Working Group, Maputo, Mozambique

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• Liebe Hendrietta Tlhapi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Radiation Control, South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, South Africa

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• Vanessa Mudaly,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Service Priorities Coordination (SPC) Directorate, Department of Health, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Richard D. Pitcher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging and Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Andreas Jahnen,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ITIS Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

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• Eliseo Vañó Carruana,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

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• Elisa López-Varela ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elisa López-Varela, Isabelle Thierry-Chef

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Medicine and Translational Research Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Isabelle Thierry-Chef

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elisa López-Varela, Isabelle Thierry-Chef

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: isabelle.thierrychef@isglobal.org

  Affiliations Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Medicine and Translational Research Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

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