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TUBERCULOSIS IN INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS
Author(s) -
ABRAHAMS E. W.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1975.tb140421.x
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , indigenous , disease , white (mutation) , medicine , pulmonary tuberculosis , population , demography , pathology , environmental health , biology , sociology , ecology , biochemistry , gene
A comparative study of tuberculosis In Aboriginal and white Australians Is presented. There Is a much higher prevalence of disease in the Aboriginal population than in the white. From a study of the clinical features and response to treatment in paired cases, disease in the Aboriginal Is found to be more acute, more extensive and more frequently non‐pulmonary. As this disease pattern Is unfamiliar to many Australian doctors, tuberculosis should enter into the differential diagnosis of all III Aborigines.