Table 3.
Overview of the included systematic reviews.
Review | Primary outcome | Date of last search |
Abubakar [17] | Number of contacts screened, and number of individuals with TBa infection and TB disease identified | November 2009 |
Fox et al [18] | Yield of TB disease and TB infection for both DS-TBb and DR-TBc source cases | October 2011 |
Shah et al [19] | Yield of TB infection and TB disease in contacts of DR-TB source cases | December 2011 |
Kodama et al [20] | Relative risk ratio of TB disease in DS-TB contacts compared with DR-TB contacts | Not reported |
Svadzian et al [21] | Proportion of cases from those evaluated through universal testing (all individuals in the study received DSTd) and those evaluated through selective testing (only the high-risk group received DST) | June 2019 |
Chiang et al [22] | Percentage of secondary cases whose Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains were resistant to the same drugs as strains from the index cases | July 2018 |
aTB: tuberculosis.
bDS-TB: drug-susceptible tuberculosis.
cDR-TB: drug-resistant tuberculosis.
dDST: drug-susceptibility testing.