Disease Control (TB)

Study Finds Link Between Decline in City's TB Rates and Intensified Control Program

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 26th, 1999

The rates of tuberculosis cases overall and of cases due to recently acquired tuberculosis infection in San Francisco, California, have declined significantly in recent years, due to the effects of more intensive control measures.

A new study identifying the trend, led by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, is reported in the June 15, 1999, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The study is the first analysis using methodology called molecular epidemiology - which combines DNA fingerprinting techniques and conventional epidemiology - to track the disease within a defined population and then to determine the effect of...

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