作者: Donald E. Morisky , Daniel M. Cabrera
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1760-7_14
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摘要: The history of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States and its most recent resurgence beginning 1985 has been well documented (Comstock, 1994). Incidence rates had on decline since 1950, with a low 9.1 per 100,000 population during early 1980s (Wilson, 1990). Between 1992, however, number cases TB increased by 20% (Johnson, Freudenberg (1994) further notes that as many 19 million persons have latent possibility becoming active.