Burden of new and recurrent tuberculosis in a major South African city stratified by age and HIV-status.

Burden of new and recurrent tuberculosis in a major South African city stratified by age and HIV-status.

<h4>Aim</h4>To describe the burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Cape Town by calculating TB incidence rates stratified by age and HIV-status, assessing the contribution of retreatment disease and estimating the cumulative lifetime TB risk in HIV-negative individuals.<h4>Methods</h4&g...

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Main Authors:	Robin Wood, Stephen D Lawn, Judy Caldwell, Richard Kaplan, Keren Middelkoop, Linda-Gail Bekker
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:	PLoS ONE
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22016763/pdf/?tool=EBI

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