The Utility of Intensified Case Finding Combined With a Package of Novel TB Diagnostics Using a Mobile Clinic in Africa

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

875

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 31, 2013

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2015

Study Completion Date

April 30, 2015

Conditions
Tuberculosis
Interventions
PROCEDURE

GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay

Automated nucleic-acid amplification test (fully integrated) test for TB

PROCEDURE

Smear microscopy

Smear microscopy involve sputum smear with either ziehl-neelsen or auramine-O staining of slides and light or fluorescence microscopy reading

Trial Locations (4)

7945

University of Cape Town, Cape Town

07100

University of Sassari, Sassari

6500 HB

Radboud University, Nijmegen

P O Box A178 Avondale

University of Zimbabwe, Harare

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

University of Zimbabwe

OTHER

collaborator

Università degli Studi di Sassari

OTHER

collaborator

Radboud University Medical Center

OTHER

lead

University of Cape Town

OTHER

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