Tuberculosis in children and adolescents, Taiwan, 1996-2003.
Analysis of data from Taiwan's National Tuberculosis (TB) Registry showed that incidence of TB in persons <20 years of age was 9.61/100,000 person-years, biphasic, and age-relevant, with a major peak in persons slightly >12 years. Aboriginal children were 8.1-17.4x more likely to have TB than non-Aboriginal children.
Chan
Pei-Chun
PC
National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Huang
Li-Min
LM
Wu
Yi-Chun
YC
Yang
Hsiang-Lin
HL
Chang
I-Shou
IS
Lu
Chun-Yi
CY
Lee
Ping-Ing
PI
Lee
Chin-Yun
CY
Chang
Luan-Yin
LY
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D044382:Population Groups; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology*