The persistence of tuberculosis in the age of DOTS: reassessing the effect of case detection
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether short-term annual declines of 5-10% in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) can be sustained over the long term by maintaining high case detection rates (CDRs). METHODS: We constructed a compartmental difference-equation model of a TB epidemic in a hypothetical popula...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2009-04-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862009000400015&lng=en&tlng=en |