Tuberculosis in New York City — Turning the Tide
Open Access
- 27 July 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 333 (4), 229-233
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199507273330406
Abstract
From 1978 through 1992, the number of patients with tuberculosis in New York City nearly tripled, and the proportion of such patients who had drug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis more than doubled.Keywords
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