Implementing and evaluating standardised tuberculosis incident management for nonhousehold contacts in a large clinical network

Benjamin Patterson; Narinder Boparai; Jennifer Dekoningh; Sudy Anaraki; Jacqui White; Marc Lipman

doi:10.1183/23120541.00270-2021

Implementing and evaluating standardised tuberculosis incident management for nonhousehold contacts in a large clinical network

ERJ Open Res. 2021 Sep 6;7(3):00270-2021. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00270-2021. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Authors

Benjamin Patterson¹, Narinder Boparai², Jennifer Dekoningh², Sudy Anaraki³, Jacqui White², Marc Lipman^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
² NCL TB Service, Whittington Health, London, UK.
³ North East and North Central London Health Protection Team, Public Health England, London, UK.
⁴ UCL Respiratory, University College London, London, UK.

Abstract

A systematic approach to nonhousehold TB contact identified a similar number of LTBI cases to household screening over the same time period https://bit.ly/2Tq96LN.