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"Evaluation of the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Programme of Barcelona after Eight Years of Operation."

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 27th, 1996

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Conference on Global Lung Health and the 1995 Annual Meeting of the IUATLD/UICTMR, held September 9-12, 1995, in Paris, France, "Objective: To evaluate the impact of the epidemiologic surveillance system in the evolution of tuberculosis (TB) in Barcelona city. Material and Methods: The study includes TB cases collected between 1987 and 1994 by the epidemiologic surveillance system of the Municipal Institute of Health. An epidemiologic investigation of each case was performed. Results: The number of TB cases has increased 39.7% between 1987 and 1991, with an annual incidence rate of 46.4/100,000 and...

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