Our hypothesis was that the implementation of the deskguide and monitoring would improve the case management (case finding and treatment outcomes) among children with tuberculosis.
The current Centre for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) recommendations to stop the spread of Ebola includes: case finding and diagnosis, case isolation and contact tracing, and safe burial practices (http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/index.html).html
Our investigation included active case finding and surveillance for additional anthrax cases at the case-patient's workplace and in her apartment complex.
For example, if a syndromic surveillance system allowed follow-up of individual cases, it might accelerate case finding and investigation into the source of infection.
Among the 97 symptomatic laboratory-confirmed case-patients (84 identified through case finding and 13 through household investigation), illness onset dates ranged from April 11 through May 8 , 2009
The Piot model is an operational analysis model that has proven useful for analyzing case management (passive case finding and treatment) in disease control programmes such as tuberculosis, malaria and sexually transmitted infections [ 15, 16].
From 1996 to 2002, a total of 468 new cases of smear-positive TB were diagnosed among the Dutch; these cases were found through passive case finding and had a recorded delay in treatment.
Our search included the terms: "tuberculosis", " Mycobacterium tuberculosis", "tuberculosis, pulmonary", and "contact tracing", "disease outbreaks", "contact", "spread", "contact screen*", "disease transmission", "case find", "cluster analysis", "household", "household contact", "case finding" or "case detection".
By active case finding unknown cases were detected.
The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis cases through active case finding and including multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) among HIV-infected patients.
