Meanings of contact investigation in English

This test has potential for implementation in national TB contact investigation programs.

One contact investigation involved train travelers and one involved students on a 6 h bus excursion.

A contact investigation was conducted after a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in an accommodation facility.

He was now isolated at the quarantine facility at Kanoa Resort and contact investigation had started.

A contact investigation showed that the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among other evacuees at the shelter was 20%.

In addition, we predict that achieving national targets for performance indicators of contact investigation programs has strong potential to further reduce TB transmission and burden.

We describe the cascade of contact investigation conducted in 27 townships of Myanmar from January 2018 to June 2019 and its implementation challenges.

Results: Twelve published reports were identified, including one retrospective cohort study and eleven contact investigations.

Comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of contact investigations for tuberculosis (TB) control is still lacking.

However, contact investigations are expected to have limited effectiveness on avoiding reactivation cases of latent infections over the next 60 years.

Objective: To allocate resources for household contact investigations, tuberculosis (TB) programs need estimates of the numbers of child contacts requiring care.

Contact investigation to identify individuals with tuberculosis and latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important component of tuberculosis control in low tuberculosis incidence countries.

Over 100 persons from more than 20 agencies spent over 2700 h conducting contact investigations in healthcare, military and community settings.