Prevalence of tuberculous infection and incidence of tuberculosis; a re-assessment of the Styblo rule

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-26

  Van Leth, F ^a,b   Van Der Werf, M J ^a,b   Borgdorff, M W ^a,b  

^a KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHILIPPINES; PREVALENCE; SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS; VALIDITY;

CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KOREA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHILIPPINES; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUBERCULOSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTH KOREA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 38049079253     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.037804     Document Type: Article

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