Tuberculosis in a low prevalence country: A wolf in sheep's clothing.
In low prevalence countries group epidemics or "micro-epidemics" of tuberculosis behave as a point-prevalence epidemic. Contact tracing follows the "Stone-in-the-Pond Principle", persons belonging to the inner circle of a source of infection being examined first. Important factors contributing to the occurrence of a micro-epidemic are prolonged patient's and doctor's delay and the dark damp atmospheres of discotheques.
Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association (KNCV), Gravenhage.
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D000328:Adult; D016358:Contact Tracing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D013029:Space-Time Clustering; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*