Epidemiologic Basis of Tuberculosis Control |
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Exposure to tubercle bacilli | 11 |
Infection with tubercle bacilli | 17 |
2 other sections not shown
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age groups age-specific prevalence Association becoming infected birth cohort body mass index bovis Bull Int Union Bull World Health chemotherapy corticosteroids culosis Data death decline Denmark diagnosis droplet nuclei Engl environmental mycobacteria epidemiology epidemiology of tuberculosis estimates exposure females Figure reproduced following infection gastrectomy Hemophilia history of contact HIV infection immunodeficiency incidence of tuberculosis increase Induration industrialized countries infected with tubercle Int Union Tuberc log scale males Mycobacterium tuberculosis notification rates period prevalence PPD-S prevalence of infection prevalence of tuberculous proportion pulmonary tuberculosis reaction sizes reactors reinfection respiratory tuberculosis Rev Respir Rev Tuberc Rieder HL risk factors risk of infection risk of tuberculosis risk of tuberculous sensitivity silicosis skin test reaction Snider sputum smear-positive Styblo sub-Saharan Africa Tanzania trend tubercle bacilli Tubercle Lung tuberculin skin test tuberculosis control tuberculosis incidence tuberculosis morbidity tuberculosis notification tuberculosis patients tuberculous infection tuberculous meningitis United virulence World Health Organization