Empiric tuberculosis treatment in South African primary health care facilities - for whom, where, when and why: Implications for the development of tuberculosis diagnostic tests

McCarthy, Kerrigan; Fielding, Katherine; Churchyard, Gavin J.; Grant, Alison D.

Empiric tuberculosis treatment in South African primary health care facilities - for whom, where, when and why: Implications for the development of tuberculosis diagnostic tests

McCarthy, K; Fielding, K

(2018). Empiric tuberculosis treatment in South African primary health care facilities - for whom, where, when and why: Implications for the development of tuberculosis diagnostic tests. [Dataset]. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191608.s001

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Pathways from enrolment to end of follow up of 167 persons who were index sputum test negative for TB at enrolment, but who were started on TB treatment during 6 months of follow up.

Keywords

Tuberculosis; Sputum; Tuberculosis diagnosis and management; Antiretroviral therapy; HIV diagnosis and management; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; HIV; Diagnostic medicine

Parent Collection(s)

Item Type	Dataset
Resource Type	Resource Type Resource Description Dataset Quantitative
Capture method	Experiment
Date	24 January 2018
Language(s) of written materials	English
Creator(s)	McCarthy, K; Fielding, K ; Churchyard, GJ and Grant, AD
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (-2023) Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Clinical Research
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Funders	Project Funder Grant Number Funder URI UNSPECIFIED Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation OPP1034523 UNSPECIFIED
Date Deposited	30 Jan 2018 10:07
Last Modified	24 Mar 2026 08:51
Publisher	Figshare