Document 0078
 DOCN  M9470078
 TI    Florida's tuberculosis epidemic. Public health response.
 DT    9409
 AU    Witte JJ; Bigler WJ; State Health Office, Department of Health and
       Rehabilitative; Services, Tallahassee.
 SO    J Fla Med Assoc. 1994 Mar;81(3):178-82. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94253795
 AB    Florida ranked fourth in the nation with 1,707 tuberculosis cases
       reported in 1992 for a rate of 12.7 per 100,000 population. Thirteen
       percent of these patients had AIDS. Recent cases in prisons, shelters,
       hospitals and schools have stimulated interest and media coverage.
       Resurgence of strains of multiple-drug resistant tuberculosis is a
       serious concern. The Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative
       Services, in collaboration with allied agencies, has utilized several
       initiatives in response. The most significant, Tuberculosis Epidemic
       Containment Plan, details intervention strategies needed to eliminate TB
       in the state by the year 2010. Successful implementation depends upon
       local TB prevention and control coalitions that include private and
       public sector providers.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Aged  Capital Financing  Child  Child, Preschool
       *Disease Outbreaks  Female  Florida/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Health Planning
       Health Services Needs and Demand  Human  Male  Middle Age  Population
       Surveillance  Public Health  Tuberculosis,
       Multidrug-Resistant/EPIDEMIOLOGY/PREVENTION &  CONTROL  Tuberculosis,
       Pulmonary/ECONOMICS/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/PREVENTION &  CONTROL  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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