PMID: 8593373Dec 1, 1995Paper

Epidemiological trends of tuberculosis in Spain from 1988 to 1992. Collaborative Group for the Study of Tuberculosis in Spain

Tubercle and Lung Disease : the Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Abstract

Spain is one of the few industrialized countries in which reliable official data on the occurrence of tuberculosis are not available. One of the purposes of the Tuberculosis and Respiratory Infection (TRI) working group established by the Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery (Sociedad Española de Nuemología y Cirugía Torácica [SEPAR]) in 1988, was to determine the true situation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and active tuberculosis disease in our country. A questionnaire requesting epidemiological data on tuberculosis was sent to the Departments of Public Health of all the Autonomous Communities in Spain (n = 17) and 60 members of the TRI working group (pneumologists, epidemiologists or microbiologists most actively working in the field of tuberculosis within their corresponding areas of influence). Results obtained for the period 1988 and 1992 were analyzed. In the 6-year-old group, annual prevalence-of-infection rates were almost 0.95%, with a slight decreasing trend over the study period. In the 14-year-old group, annual figures of around 3% have been registered. The 1992 incidence rates of new cases of tuberculosis and sputum-smear positive tuberculosis were 40 and 21.2 per 100,000, respectively. Frequently distrib...Continue Reading

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Jun 4, 1999·Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease·G FätkenheuerR Wenzel
Jul 18, 2002·Microbial Drug Resistance : MDR : Mechanisms, Epidemiology, and Disease·P RuizM Casal
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