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The Impact of Worldwide Drug Resistance on the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
WATSON JOHN
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb11368.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , incidence (geometry) , demography , tuberculosis , drug resistance , kingdom , resistance (ecology) , medicine , geography , political science , biology , pathology , sociology , law , ecology , physics , microbiology and biotechnology , optics , paleontology
A bstract : The incidence of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom, which declined beginning in the middle of the 19th century, began to increase in the late 1980s. The distribution of tuberculosis by geographic area, age, and ethnic group is discussed. Drug resistance is high among U.K. residents born abroad, but the proportion of drug‐resistant cases is remaining stable.