Why the tuberculosis incidence rate is not falling in New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 1243, 2006, Pages

  Das, Dilip K ^a   Baker, Michael ^a   Venugopal, Kamalesh ^a   McAllister, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; CHILD; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAORI; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REFUGEE; REINFECTION; SUPERINFECTION; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; STATISTICS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33750241285     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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