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Forecasting the impact of population ageing on tuberculosis incidence

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) disease reactivates from distant latent infection or recent (re)infection. Progression risks increase with age. Across the World Health Organisation Western Pacific region, many populations are ageing and have the highest per capita TB incidence rates in older age group...

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Autores principales: Ku, Chu-Chang, Dodd, Peter J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6759178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31550293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222937