Mind the gap: TB trends in the USA and the UK, 2000-2011

Thorax

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 356-363

  Nnadi, Chimeremma D ^a   Anderson, Laura F ^b   Armstrong, Lori R ^a   Stagg, Helen R ^c   Pedrazzoli, Debora ^d   Pratt, Robert ^a   Heilig, Charles M ^a   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^b,c   Moonan, Patrick K ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BORN; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; POPULATION GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITE OF DISEASE; TREND STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ADULT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959279254     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207915     Document Type: Article

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