标题：A controlled study of the influence of segregation of tuberculous patients for one year on the attack rate of tuberculosis in a 5-year period in close family contacts in South India
摘要：This report is the last of a series of nine publications from the Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre, Madras, concerning various aspects of an investigation of the role of ambulatory chemotherapy for pulmonary tuberculosis. It presents the attack rates of tuberculosis over a 5-year period of follow-up of close family contacts of patients, all of whom were treated for one year with isoniazid plus PAS, half (selected at random) in sanatorium and half at home. The incidence of active tuberculosis and of tuberculous infections was no greater in the contacts of patients treated at home than in the contacts of patients treated in sanatorium, either in the first year or over the subsequent four years. The major risk to the contacts resulted from exposure to the patient before diagnosis. These findings reaffirm that close family contacts of patients treated at home were at no additional risk of developing tuberculosis, provided the patients received effective chemotherapy. Finally, this study has shown that it is possible in South India to obtain extremely good co-operation from a group of families over a period of several years. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (2.1M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532
