Volume 26, Number 5—May 2020
Dispatch
A Neighbor-Based Approach to Identify Tuberculosis Exposure, the Kopanyo Study
Table
Number of index patients and possible additional subsequent contacts and future-related patients identified by using a nearest-neighbor approach to tuberculosis screening, Botswana*
Geographic area | No. index patients† |
No. household members (FR)‡ | No. nearest-neighbors (FR)‡ | No. next-nearest neighbors (FR)‡ | Total subsequent patients (FR)‡ | No. screened to identify 1 TB patient (95% CI)§ | Household contacts that could benefit from TPT¶ | Neighbor contacts that could benefit from TPT¶ | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gaborone | |||||||||
A | 123 | 57 (16) | 93 (0) | 47 (2) | 197 (18) | 21 (13–32) | 861 | 3,472 | |
B | 58 | 19 (4) | 41 (0) | 21 (0) | 81 (4) | 18 (11–28) | 307 | 1,230 | |
C | 210 | 83 (22) | 146 (8) | 84 (1) | 313 (31) | 16 (9–26) | 1,092 | 4,368 | |
D | 195 | 58 (10) | 110 (0) | 56 (2) | 224 (12) | 19 (11–30) | 878 | 3,510 | |
E | 79 | 28 (6) | 46 (0) | 30 (0) | 104 (6) | 11 (5–20) | 253 | 1,011 | |
F | 129 | 53 (2) | 84 (2) | 51 (2) | 188 (6) | 15 (8–25) | 593 | 2,374 | |
G | 51 | 14 (0) | 29 (0) | 18 (0) | 61 (0) | 9 (4–17) | 128 | 510 | |
H | 20 | 5 (0) | 12 (0) | 6 (0) | 23 (0) | 7 (3–14) | 38 | 152 | |
I | 6 | 2 (0) | 9 (0) | 4 (0) | 15 (0) | 2 (0–7) | 10 | 41 | |
J | 6 | 2 (0) | 2 (0) | 1 (0) | 5 (0) | 22 (14–33) | 23 | 94 | |
K |
11 |
6 (0) |
11 (0) |
6 (0) |
23 (0) |
7 (3–14) |
35 |
141 |
|
Ghanzi District | |||||||||
Ghanzi | 141 | 83 (57) | 143 (24) | 57 (3) | 283 (84) | 6 (2–16) | 398 | 1,590 | |
D’kar | 35 | 9 (2) | 14 (8) | 7 (0) | 30 (10) | 11 (5–20) | 86 | 280 | |
Kuke |
8 |
7 (4) |
9 (0) |
2 (0) |
18 (4) |
8 (3–15) |
28 |
128 |
|
Total | 1,072 |
426 (123) | 749 (42) | 390 (10) | 1,565 (175) | 16 (9–26) | 4,730 | 18,901 |
*FR, future related; TB, tuberculosis; TPT, tuberculosis preventive treatment.
†No. index patients is equivalent to the number of standard contact investigations.
‡Future related, i.e., all culture-positive patients with matching M. tuberculosis genotype as an index patient.
§Limits of 95% CI assume a Poisson distribution.
¶Number exposed to bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB who do not have TB disease.