Nepal National tuberculosis programme report of the National tuberculosis survey

Summary: The annual risk of tuberculosis infection (ARTI) is a sensitive indicator of the epidemiological salutation of tuberculosis (TB) in a country. It expresses he overall impact of incidence of infectious cases and duration of diseases in the community, efficiency of the TB control program as...

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1. Verfasser: Development For International Development (DFID)
Format: Technical Report
Sprache:en_US
Veröffentlicht: Development For International Development (DFID) 2013
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Zusammenfassung:Summary: The annual risk of tuberculosis infection (ARTI) is a sensitive indicator of the epidemiological salutation of tuberculosis (TB) in a country. It expresses he overall impact of incidence of infectious cases and duration of diseases in the community, efficiency of the TB control program as well as the environmental and social factors influencing transmission of infection. The ARTI is calculated from the prevalence of infection estimated estimated through cross-sectional tuberculin surveys in a representative sample of children.