Tuberculosis in indigenous Australians.
A comparative study of tuberculosis in Aboriginal and white Australians is presented. There is a much higher prevalence of disease in the Aboriginal population than in the white. From a study of the clinical features and response to treatment in paired cases, disease in the Aboriginal is found to be more acute, more extensive and more frequently non-pulmonary. As this disease pattern is unfamiliar to many Australian doctors, tuberculosis should enter into the differential diagnosis of all ill Aborigines.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D001315:Australia; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011859:Radiography; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples