Defining adequate contact for transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an African urban environment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The risk of infection from respiratory pathogens increases according to the contact rate between the infectious case and susceptible contact, but the definition of adequate contact for transmission is not standard. In this study we aimed to identify factors that can explain the level of contact between tuberculosis cases and their social networks in an African urban environment.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Kampala, Uganda from 2013 to 2017. We carried out an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in social network data from tuberculosis cases and their contacts. We evaluated the factorability of the data to EFA using the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy (KMO). We used principal axis factoring with oblique rotation to extract and

SUBMITTER: Castellanos ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7285782 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature