TY - JOUR AU - Kigozi, Gladys AU - Engelbrecht, Michelle AU - Heunis, Christo AU - Janse van Rensburg, André PY - 2018 DA - 2018/03/05 TI - Household contact non-attendance of clinical evaluation for tuberculosis: a pilot study in a high burden district in South Africa JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 106 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - In 2012, the World Health Organization launched guidelines for systematically investigating contacts of persons with infectious tuberculosis (TB) in low- and middle-income countries. As such, it is necessary to understand factors that would influence successful scale-up. This study targeted household contacts of newly-diagnosed infectious TB patients in the Mangaung Metropolitan district to explore factors associated with non-attendance of clinical evaluation. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3010-3 DO - 10.1186/s12879-018-3010-3 ID - Kigozi2018 ER -