Trends in Untreated Tuberculosis in Large Municipalities, Brazil, 2008–2017
Melanie H. Chitwood

, Daniele M. Pelissari, Gabriela Drummond Marques da Silva, Patricia Bartholomay, Marli Souza Rocha, Denise Arakaki-Sanchez, Mauro Sanchez, Ted Cohen, Marcia C. Castro, and Nicolas A. Menzies
Author affiliations: Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (M.H. Chitwood, T. Cohen); Ministry of Health, Brasília, Brazil (D.M. Pelissari, P. Bartholomay, M.S. Rocha, D. Arakaki-Sanchez); Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Minas Gerais, Brazil (G.D. Marques da Silva); University of Brasília, Brasília (M. Sanchez); Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (M.C. Castro, N.A. Menzies)
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Figure 1. Modeled tuberculosis (TB) burden in 101 largest municipalities and state capitals of Brazil, 2017. Gray curves indicate isopleths of untreated TB incidence × (1 − fraction treated). Municipalities in the 5th and 95th percentiles of untreated TB, as well as those with the highest incidence (São Vicente) and highest fraction treated (Osasco), are labeled.
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