TY - JOUR AU - Chan, Pei-Chun AU - Huang, Li-Min AU - Wu, Yi-Chun AU - Yang, Hsiang-Lin AU - Chang, I-Shou AU - Lu, Chun-Yi AU - Lee, Ping-Ing AU - Lee, Chin-Yun AU - Chang, Luan-Yin T1 - Tuberculosis in Children and Adolescents, Taiwan, 1996–2003 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 9 SP - 1361 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Analysis of data from Taiwan’s National Tuberculosis (TB) Registry showed that incidence of TB in persons <20 years of age was 9.61/100,000 person-years, biphasic, and age-relevant, with a major peak in persons slightly >12 years. Aboriginal children were 8.1–17.4× more likely to have TB than non-Aboriginal children. KW - children KW - tuberculosis KW - extrapulmonary KW - Taiwan KW - BCG KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1309.061020 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/9/06-1020_article ER - End of Reference