The persistence of tuberculosis in the age of DOTS: reassessing the effect of case detection

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether short-term annual declines of 5-10% in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) can be sustained over the long term by maintaining high case detection rates (CDRs). METHODS: We constructed a compartmental difference-equation model of a TB epidemic in a hypothetical popula...

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Main Authors: David W Dowdy (Author), Richard E Chaisson (Author)
Format: Book
Published: The World Health Organization, 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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