Epidemiology of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in the United States, 1993–2006

M. Peto, Heather; Pratt, Robert; Harrington, Theresa; LoBue, Philip; Armstrong, Lori

doi:10.1086/605559

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Epidemiology of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in the United States, 1993–2006

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • Sep 30, 2009

Authors:

Heather M. Peto

Robert Pratt

Theresa Harrington

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Almost one-fifth of United States tuberculosis cases are extrapulmonary; unexplained slower annual case count decreases have occurred in extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB), compared with annual case count decreases in pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases. We describe the epidemiology of EP...

Subject

Medicine

Tuberculosis

Epidemiology

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