Relationship of ARTI to incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis in a district of south India

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作者：

Gopi, PG ^{[1
]}

Subramani, R ^{[1
]}

Santha, T ^{[1
]}

Kumaran, PP ^{[1
]}

Kumaraswami, V ^{[1
]}

Narayanan, PR ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] TB Res Ctr, Madras 600031, Tamil Nadu, India

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE | 2006年 / 10卷 / 01期

关键词：

survey; incidence; prevalence; ARTI;

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中图分类号：

R51 [传染病];

学科分类号：

100401 ;

摘要：

OBJECTIVE: To validate the currently used empirical relationship between annual risk of tuberculous infection (ARTI) and incidence and prevalence of smear-positive cases. SETTING: Two disease surveys to estimate, the prevalence and incidence of tuberculosis.(TB) among adults in Tiruvallur district, south India, and a tuberculin survey to estimate the ARTI among children. RESULTS: The incidence of TB was estimated to be 82 and prevalence 210 per 100000 population and ARTI 1.6%. We estimated that 1% ARTI corresponded to 51 new and 131 prevalent cases. CONCLUSION: The currently used empirical relationship between ARTI and incidence can be used by programme managers as an effective monitoring tool.

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