Cape Verde21 27 | Mozambique22 24–26 | |
Nature of the attendance of the contact to the healthcare unit | Active contact tracking (home visit or workplace visit) | Active contact tracking based on the indications provided by the index case (home visit for household contacts of patients with TB or summoning) |
Screening algorithm | HIV testing and Chest X-ray or Sputum smear microscopy or Erythrocyte sedimentation rate or Tuberculin skin test (TST) | Clinical evaluation (epidemiology history, presumptive TB signs and symptoms) Complementary tests depending on the clinical picture presented and the availability of the method (chest X-ray, tuberculin skin test, sputum smear microscopy, Xpert MTB/RIF test, culture-based methods for drug susceptibility testing and line probe assay) |
Contact follow-up | Not mentioned | Two years follow-up for children under 15 years |
HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus; Xpert MTB/RIF, Molecular test that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance simultaneously; TB, tuberculosis.