Epidemiology and control of tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: update with 2013 case notification data
Introduction: Since the year 2000, tuberculosis (TB) prevalence in the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region decreased 36%. However, there were an estimated 1.6 million TB cases in the Region in 2013. This study describes a regional analysis using the WHO global TB database data fro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Western Pacific Surveillance and Response |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.wpro.who.int/ojs/index.php/wpsar/article/view/416/668 |