Case-Finding Strategies for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Protocol for a Scoping Review

Susanna S Van Wyk   ¹ , MD, MSc ;   Marriott Nliwasa   ² , PhD ;   James A Seddon   ^{3, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Graeme Hoddinott   ³ , PhD ;   Lario Viljoen   ³ , PhD ;   Emmanuel Nepolo   ⁵ , PhD ;   Gunar Günther   ^{5, 6} , MD, PhD ;   Nunurai Ruswa   ⁷ , MD, MSc ;   Hsien-Ho Lin   ⁸ , MD, ScD ;   Stefan Niemann   ^{9, 10, 11} , PhD ;   Neel R Gandhi   ^{12, 13} , MD ;   N Sarita Shah   ^{12, 13} , MD, MPH ;   Mareli Claassens   ⁵ , MD, PhD

¹ Centre for Evidence Based Health Care, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

² Helse Nord Tuberculosis Initiative, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

³ Desmond Tutu Tuberculosis Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

⁵ Department of Human, Biological and Translational Medical Science, School of Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

⁶ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁷ Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia

⁸ Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

⁹ Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology Group, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

¹⁰ National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

¹¹ German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany

¹² Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

¹³ Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States