Prevalence of tuberculous infection and incidence of tuberculosis: a re-assessment of the Styblo rule
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the validity of the fixed mathematical relationship between the annual risk of tuberculous infection (ARTI), the prevalence of smear-positive tuberculosis (TB) and the incidence of smear-positive TB specified as the Styblo rule, which TB control programmes use to estimate the...
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Main Authors: | F van Leth (Author), MJ van der Werf (Author), MW Borgdorff (Author) |
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The World Health Organization,
2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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