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Engaging Community Pharmacists and Alternative Practitioners: An Approach to Active Case Finding of Tuberculosis in Malaysia

 

Muhammad Atif1*, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman1, Asrul Akmal Shafie2, Muhammad Asif3 and Shazia Qasim Jamshed4

1Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy, 2Discipline of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 4Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Minden, Penang, 4School of Pharmacy, International Islamic University, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.

 

*For correspondence: Email: pharmacist_atif@yahoo.com; Tel: +60147572474

 

Received: 4 December 2012                                  Revised accepted: 8 November 2013

 

Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, December 2013; 12(6): 1093-1095

http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tjpr.v12i6.34   

Abstract

 

Contact tracing is the most commonly employed process of identifying the relevant contacts of a person with an infectious disease. A systematic review and meta-analysis on contact tracing of tuberculosis (TB) suspects has shown that the yield of household contact investigation in low- and middle-income countries was 6.5 %. However, a recent study from Malaysia has shown the yield of TB contact tracing as low as 0.49 %. Engaging community pharmacists and alternative practitioners in tracing TB suspects in Malaysia is context-specific and can significantly decrease transmission and incidence of the disease. 

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