       Document 0325
 DOCN  M9640325
 TI    [Tuberculosis in Portugal]
 DT    9604
 AU    Antunes M de L; Nucleo de Tuberculose, Direccao Geral de Saude, Lisboa.
 SO    Acta Med Port. 1995 Oct;8(10):559-65. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96120096
 AB    There is a general downward trend of most epidemiological indices for
       TB, except for mortality. Incidence and prevalence rates were, for the
       first time ever, situated below 50 cases/100,000 inhabitants and
       smear-positive cases below 25/100,000. TB occurs mostly in the large,
       coastal cities, Lisboa and Oporto having 50% of the cases. There is a
       decreasing trend in 14 districts. Males are most affected. Young adults,
       19 to 44 years old are the most prevalent group, children under 15
       having very few cases and hardly any cases of miliary or meningitis. TB
       occurring together with AIDS had a greater increase than AIDS alone.
       Substance abusers had a greater increase of both situations, as well as
       deaths, than the other risk groups. BCG vaccination, as part of EPI,
       attained 91% coverage of newborns.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Age Distribution  Aged  AIDS-Related Opportunistic
       Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Child  Child, Preschool  English Abstract
       Female  Human  HIV-1  Incidence  Male  Middle Age  Portugal/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       Recurrence  Sex Distribution  Tuberculosis/*EPIDEMIOLOGY  JOURNAL
       ARTICLE

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