Strengthened tuberculosis control programme and trend of multidrug resistant tuberculosis rate in Osaka City, Japan

• Main Authors: Nobukatsu Ishikawa (Author), Jun Komukai (Author), Hideki Yoshida (Author), Kenji Matsumoto (Author), Akihiro Ohkado (Author), Akira Shimouchi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Osaka City has the highest tuberculosis (TB) notification rates in Japan. In the period 1999-2003, the TB control programme was strengthened, and the Stop TB Strategy was implemented to reduce the number of notified cases. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of these control activit...