Defining adequate contact for transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an African urban environment

BMC Public Health
María E CastellanosChristopher C Whalen

Abstract

The risk of infection from respiratory pathogens increases according to the contact rate between the infectious case and susceptible contact, but the definition of adequate contact for transmission is not standard. In this study we aimed to identify factors that can explain the level of contact between tuberculosis cases and their social networks in an African urban environment. This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Kampala, Uganda from 2013 to 2017. We carried out an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in social network data from tuberculosis cases and their contacts. We evaluated the factorability of the data to EFA using the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy (KMO). We used principal axis factoring with oblique rotation to extract and rotate the factors, then we calculated factor scores for each using the weighted sum scores method. We assessed construct validity of the factors by associating the factors with other variables related to social mixing. Tuberculosis cases (N = 120) listed their encounters with 1154 members of their social networks. Two factors were identified, the first named "Setting" captured 61% of the variance whereas the second, named 'Relationship' captured 21%. Median scores for the se...Continue Reading

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