Active case finding using mobile vans with artificial intelligence aided radiology tests and sputum collection for rapid diagnostic tests to reduce tuberculosis prevalence among high-risk population in rural China: Protocol for a pragmatic trial

• Xiaolin Wei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolin Wei, Dabin Liang

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca (XW); gxlinmei@126.com (ML)

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-2650

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• Dabin Liang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolin Wei, Dabin Liang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Zhitong Zhang,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Kevin E. Thorpe,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Lingyun Zhou,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Jinming Zhao,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Huifang Qin,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Xiaoyan Liang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Zhezhe Cui,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Yan Huang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Liwen Huang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Mei Lin

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

  * E-mail: xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca (XW); gxlinmei@126.com (ML)

  Affiliation Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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