Overview of the TB epidemic in the world

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Overview of the TB epidemic in the world and the
region (well, sorts of)
Hans L Rieder Department of Tuberculosis Control
and Prevention The Union
Tbilisi, 17 September 2007
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A Model for the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis
Risk
Risk
Risk
Risk
factors
factors
factors
factors
Infectious
tuberculosis
Subclinical
Exposure
Death
infection
Non-infectious
tuberculosis
Rieder HL. Infection 1995231-4
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Stop TB Partnership. The global plan to stop TB
2006 - 2015. World Health Organization. Geneva.
2006 pp 1-167.
If you cannot count cases, then make
outrageously expensive, usually under-powered,
logistically nightmarish prevalence surveys
If you have no data, then model with
assumptions based on no data
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