A Trial of Mass Isoniazid Preventive Therapy for Tuberculosis Control
Author(s) -
Gavin Churchyard,
Katherine Fielding,
James Lewis,
Leonie Coetzee,
Elizabeth L. Corbett,
Peter GodfreyFaussett,
Richard Hayes,
Richard E. Chaisson,
Alison D. Grant
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1214289
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , isoniazid , incidence (geometry) , cluster (spacecraft) , rate ratio , confidence interval , latent tuberculosis , cluster randomised controlled trial , pediatrics , randomized controlled trial , surgery , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology , physics , computer science , optics , programming language
Tuberculosis is epidemic among workers in South African gold mines. We evaluated an intervention to interrupt tuberculosis transmission by means of mass screening that was linked to treatment for active disease or latent infection.
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