In-Home Tongue Swab TB Screening Among Household Contacts in South Africa with Dr Chris Lowbridge

The next ACTnet Asia-Pacific Regional TB Journal Club will be held on Tuesday 17 November at 1:00 pm AEDT and will feature ACTnet’s own Dr Chris Lowbridge.

Dr Chris Lowbridge is a nurse and infectious diseases epidemiologist at the Menzies School of Health Research, where he co-leads the Global and Tropical Health Division and leads the TB program.

His research focuses on improving TB care and prevention through epidemiology and implementation science, with projects in Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Aboriginal communities in northern Australia. He also serves as the Regional Engagement Specialist on Australia’s National TB Advisory Committee.

During this session, Chris will discuss the following paper:

In-home tongue swab testing for tuberculosis screening among household contacts in South Africa: a prospective cohort study

This study evaluated whether in-home tongue swab testing could be used to screen household contacts of people with TB in South Africa, offering an alternative to sputum-based testing, which…