background: tuberculosis (tb) continues to pose a major global health problem and thus intensive action is needed to control and ultimately eliminate the disease . methods: an active case finding (acf) survey was conducted in the urban slum areas of the r-south municipal ward of mumbai city for a period of two months from june to july 2012. micro planning for survey was done by district tubercu...

Background At present of the limitation of the current case finding strategies and the global urgency to improve tuberculosis (TB) case finding, a renewed interest in active case finding (ACF) has risen. World Health Organization (WHO) calls for research on TB screening among low-income countries because of the limitation of the passive case finding strategies. We aimed to evaluated Active Case...