Document 0721
 DOCN  M9590721
 TI    Tuberculosis in the 1990s.
 DT    9509
 AU    Bass JB Jr; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University
       of; South Alabama Medical Center, Mobile 36617, USA.
 SO    Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1995 Feb;19(1):3-5. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/95289596
 AB    The steady decline in tuberculosis case rate reversed in the mid-1980s,
       and tuberculosis cases have increased dramatically since that time.
       Important factors contributing to this increase are the human
       immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic and tuberculosis occurring in
       foreign-born persons. Tuberculosis outbreaks have occurred in HIV
       clinics and wards, prisons, homeless shelters, nursing homes, and health
       care facilities. Some of the outbreaks have involved strains of
       tuberculosis resistant to multiple antituberculosis drugs. Recent
       recommendations for initial therapy of tuberculosis include the use of
       four drugs and directly observed therapy in an effort to prevent the
       emergence of further drug resistance.
 DE    Antitubercular Agents/THERAPEUTIC USE  AIDS-Related Opportunistic
       Infections/DRUG THERAPY/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/  TRANSMISSION  Cross-Sectional
       Studies  *Disease Outbreaks  Human  Incidence  Risk Factors
       Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/DRUG THERAPY/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/
       TRANSMISSION  Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/DRUG
       THERAPY/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  United States/EPIDEMIOLOGY  JOURNAL
       ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW, TUTORIAL

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