Tuberculosis in Children and Adolescents, Taiwan, 1996–2003

Analysis of data from Taiwan’s National Tuberculosis (TB) Registry showed that incidence of TB in persons <20 years of age was 9.61/100,000 person-years, biphasic, and age-relevant, with a major peak in persons slightly >12 years. Aboriginal children were 8.1–17.4× more likely to have TB than...

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Autores principales: Chan, Pei-Chun, Huang, Li-Min, Wu, Yi-Chun, Yang, Hsiang-Lin, Chang, I-Shou, Lu, Chun-Yi, Lee, Ping-Ing, Lee, Chin-Yun, Chang, Luan-Yin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2857268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18252109
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1309.061020
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Sumario:Analysis of data from Taiwan’s National Tuberculosis (TB) Registry showed that incidence of TB in persons <20 years of age was 9.61/100,000 person-years, biphasic, and age-relevant, with a major peak in persons slightly >12 years. Aboriginal children were 8.1–17.4× more likely to have TB than non-Aboriginal children.

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