Clinical epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.
In the Papua New Guinea Highlands, tuberculosis has an epidemiological setting unique in the developing world. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is slowly infiltrating a susceptible, formerly isolated population. Because of this unique situation, commonly-recommended standard programmes must be rationally, sometimes radically, altered if case finding is to be epidemiologically efficient.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010219:Papua New Guinea; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control