"A Comparison of the Tuberculosis Control Programs in San Francisco, USA and Zurich, Switzerland."

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, "San Francisco county and the canton of Zurich are suited for comparison of their TB control programs, being comparable in population, with significant numbers of HIV infection, employing long established, well functioning, though differently organized TB management programs, showing low drug resistance rates and having patient populations consisting of 50% and more foreigners. Beside these similarities, San Francisco had a TB incidence in 1992 of 49 cases/100,000, with HIV involvement in 23%, whereas...

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