Notification of tuberculosis: how many cases are never reported?
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Notification of tuberculosis: how many cases are never reported?
BACKGROUND Notification of tuberculosis is essential for local contact tracing and for assessing the national incidence of tuberculosis. The accuracy of notification figures is uncertain. This study examined the notification rates of all patients diagnosed as having tuberculosis at two hospitals in the East End of London over five years. METHODS In a retrospective survey of all patients aged ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.48.5.583