Screening for tuberculosis: time to move beyond symptoms

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Electronic address: christina.yoon@ucsf.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital Blantyre, Chichiri, Malawi.
⁵ FIND, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland.

Christina Yoon et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;7(3):202-204.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30039-6.

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Electronic address: christina.yoon@ucsf.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital Blantyre, Chichiri, Malawi.
⁵ FIND, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests.

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