Recent trends in tuberculosis in children
K. E. Powell, M. P. Meador and L. S. Farer
From 1976 through 1981, the incidence of tuberculosis in the United States
among children 0 through 14 years of age failed to decline. The incidence
had declined at a rate of about 9% per year from 1962 through 1975. The
failure was observed for both sexes and for white children and children of
"other" races. Data confined to 1980 and 1981 suggested that Hispanic
children with tuberculosis may have accounted for the stability of the
tuberculosis case rate among white children. Tuberculosis among Indochinese
refugee children accounted for the stability of the case rate among
children of other races.
