Disease Control

TB Control Efforts Must Include Children

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 10th, 1999

Efforts to control tuberculosis in developing areas must focus on children as well as adults, according to a report from South Africa.

A. van Rie and colleagues from Tygerberg's University examined the epidemiology of childhood tuberculosis (TB) in the developing nation.

Two urban communities of Cape Town, South Africa with a combined TB case notification rate of 1,149/100,000 were included in the retrospective descriptive study using the national population census (1991), 10 year official TB notification records, and a geographical information system ("Childhood Tuberculosis in an Urban Population in South Africa: Burden and Risk Factor," Arch Dis...

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