Abstract:OBJECTIVE: To describe and to compare the incidence of tuberculosis in childhood and adolescence in the Paraíba Valley (State of São Paulo, Brazil) in 1993 and 1997. METHOD: Descriptive study with secondary records obtained from the Tuberculosis Division of the Health Department of the State of São Paulo (Divisão de Tuberculose da Secretaria de Saúde de São Paulo). The variables were the type of case, age, form of detection, diagnosis confirmation, clinical presentation, X-ray results, and anti-HIV test result… Show more
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