The Incidence of Tuberculosis after a Measles Outbreak

The Incidence of Tuberculosis after a Measles Outbreak

Among 53,974 cases of measles that occurred during the 2000-2001 outbreak in Korea, the incidence of tuberculosis following measles was 47 cases per 214,949.6 person-years, which was significantly lower than that in the general population (standardized incidence ratio, 0.73; 95% confidence interval,...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical infectious diseases 2008-03, Vol.46 (6), p.902-904, Article 902
Hauptverfasser: Lee, Chang-Hoon, Lee, Eun Gyu, Lee, Ju-Young, Park, KeeHo, Lee, Beom Hee, Han, Hwasoon, Oh, Eunjung, Kim, Hee-Jin, Kang, Mi-Kyoung, Oh, Soo Yon, Bai, Jeong Ym, Bai, Gill-Han, Lee, Duk-Hyoung, Oh, Dae-Kyu, Lee, Jong-Koo
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Sprache:eng
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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Bacterial diseases
Biological and medical sciences
Brief Reports
Child
Child, Preschool
Disease Notification - statistics & numerical data
Disease Outbreaks
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Female
Human bacterial diseases
Human viral diseases
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Infections
Infectious diseases
Korea - epidemiology
Male
Measles
Measles - epidemiology
Measles - immunology
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mycobacterium
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Surveillance
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis - epidemiology
Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections
Tuberculosis vaccine
Viral diseases
Viral diseases with cutaneous or mucosal lesions and viral diseases of the eye
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Zusammenfassung:Among 53,974 cases of measles that occurred during the 2000-2001 outbreak in Korea, the incidence of tuberculosis following measles was 47 cases per 214,949.6 person-years, which was significantly lower than that in the general population (standardized incidence ratio, 0.73; 95% confidence interval, 0.54-0.96). In conclusion, we did not find a positive relationship between measles and tuberculosis.
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1086/528856