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Title: The control of chronic infectious patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in a rural area of China. Author: Zhang LX, Kan GQ, Wu JC, Liu CW, Dai YS, Sun FX. Journal: Tubercle; 1989 Mar; 70(1):21-5. PubMed ID: 2781607. Abstract: The aim of this study was to reduce the prevalence of chronic infectious cases (CIC) in a rural area of China by fully supervised chemotherapy of newly diagnosed smear-positive cases and by reducing the number of existing old CIC through fully supervised retreatment. From 1980 to 1985, 83.3% of 1828 new, smear-positive cases were given fully supervised chemotherapy. In 1980, 95.2% of 565 old CIC started fully supervised retreatment. The prevalence of CIC had dropped from 40.5/100,000 in 1980 to 6.7/100,000 by the end of 1986.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]