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Child contact management in high tuberculosis burden countries: A mixed-methods systematic review

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  • Daria Szkwarko
  • Yael Hirsch-Moverman
  • Lienki Du Plessis
  • Karen Du Preez
  • Catherine Carr
  • Anna M Mandalakas

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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Considering the World Health Organization recommendation to implement child contact management (CCM) for TB, we conducted a mixed-methods systematic review to summarize CCM implementation, challenges, predictors, and recommendations. We searched the electronic databases of PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, and Web of Science for studies published between 1996–2017 that reported CCM data from high TB-burden countries. Protocol details for this systematic review were registered on PROSPERO: International prospective register of systematic reviews (#CRD42016038105). We formulated a search strategy to identify all available studies, published in English that specifically targeted a) population: child contacts (

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  • Daria Szkwarko & Yael Hirsch-Moverman & Lienki Du Plessis & Karen Du Preez & Catherine Carr & Anna M Mandalakas, 2017. "Child contact management in high tuberculosis burden countries: A mixed-methods systematic review," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(8), pages 1-23, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0182185
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182185
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