Epidemiological trends in TB during a technical assistance project, Zambia, 2015–2018
After introducing GeneXpert equipment at CHC and CDH, the proportion of bacteriologically-positive TB among presumptive TB significantly decreased because of the high number of patients with presumptive TB screened; however, it may have also caused treatment success rates to have stumbled.
Authors
- Graham Samungole
- Shiro Amano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0472-851X)
- Moses Changala
- Mackwellings Phiri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5765-6340)
- V. Mfungwe
- Masaki Ota
- Charles Msiska
- Samuel Daka
- Y. Matsuoka
- Susumu Hirao
- Yosuke Tanaka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2376-155X)
- Z. Mtonga
- C. Masitano
- M. Oniki-Goto
Institutions
- Ministry of Health (ZM)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (US)
- University of Zambia (ZM)
- Japan Anti Tuberculosis Association (JP)
- Saitama International Medical Center (JP)
- National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (ZM)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Public Health Action
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5588/pha.24.0028
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.78