Tuberculosis Management in the Mid-1970s
| Autor: | Morton I. Rapoport, John H. McConville |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Chemotherapy education.field_of_study Tuberculosis business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Population Isoniazid General Medicine Disease medicine.disease Surgery medicine Tuberculosis management Sputum medicine.symptom Intensive care medicine business education Socioeconomic status medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 235:172 |
| ISSN: | 0098-7484 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/jama.1976.03260280030022 |
| Popis: | TUBERCULOSIS today is primarily an urban disease, with the lower-income population at greatest risk. Its pathogenesis is well understood and effective chemotherapy regimens exist, yet control of the disease has not been achieved. The inability to identify the disease and provide treatment effectively to those who are at greatest risk of having active tuberculosis is a major stumbling block in the eradication of this infection. Various medical disorders and socioeconomic factors are known to increase the risk of active tuberculosis developing, and the American Thoracic Society has recommended that certain of these groups receive one year of isoniazid therapy.1These include household contacts of patients with active cases of tuberculosis, skin-test reactors with a chest x-ray film consistent with nonprogressive tuberculosis who have not previously received adequate chemotherapy and whose sputum is negative at the time of evaluation, persons whose skin tests have converted within two years, and skin-test |
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