Biomaterial Database

[A new approach to tuberculosis case management]. 1990

T Mori

Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Kiyose.

Some characteristics of the Japan's recent tuberculosis epidemiology are discussed. Slowing-off of the decreasing trend of the incidence during the last 10 years has not been well explained. Furthermore, the incidence of bacteriologically confirmed cases has remained almost constant during these period, and the incidence of smear positive cases is even on the increasing trend among old ages. These newly shown features of tuberculosis cast a shadow on the prospects of tuberculosis elimination of the county. The generation gap in the prevalence of tuberculosis infection is very sharp today, and it will be more in the future, which will lead to the greater chance of outbreak of tuberculosis microepidemics in the future. The coverage of chemoprophylaxis as shown by the number of new infections and the registered chemoprophylaxis cases is estimated as about 15%. The contact examination should be more important in the future. The number of examinations in relation to one index case is increasing.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007564	Japan	A country in eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula. The capital is Tokyo.	Bonin Islands
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D005190	Family	A social group consisting of parents or parent substitutes and children.	Family Life Cycles,Family Members,Family Life Cycle,Family Research,Filiation,Kinship Networks,Relatives,Families,Family Member,Kinship Network,Life Cycle, Family,Life Cycles, Family,Network, Kinship,Networks, Kinship,Research, Family
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
D014376	Tuberculosis	Any of the infectious diseases of man and other animals caused by species of MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS.	Koch's Disease,Kochs Disease,Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection,Infection, Mycobacterium tuberculosis,Infections, Mycobacterium tuberculosis,Koch Disease,Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections,Tuberculoses
D015994	Incidence	The number of new cases of a given disease during a given period in a specified population. It also is used for the rate at which new events occur in a defined population. It is differentiated from PREVALENCE, which refers to all cases in the population at a given time.	Attack Rate,Cumulative Incidence,Incidence Proportion,Incidence Rate,Person-time Rate,Secondary Attack Rate,Attack Rate, Secondary,Attack Rates,Cumulative Incidences,Incidence Proportions,Incidence Rates,Incidence, Cumulative,Incidences,Person time Rate,Person-time Rates,Proportion, Incidence,Rate, Attack,Rate, Incidence,Rate, Person-time,Rate, Secondary Attack,Secondary Attack Rates
D016358	Contact Tracing	Identification of those persons (or animals) who have had such an association with an infected person, animal, or contaminated environment as to have had the opportunity to acquire the infection.	Close Contact Epidemiology,Communicable Disease Contact Tracing,Contact Investigation,Contact Screening,Index Case Epidemiology,Index Patient Epidemiology,Infectious Disease Contact Tracing,Notification, Partner,PUI Epidemiology,Partner Notification,Patient Zero Epidemiology,Person Under Investigation Epidemiology,Epidemiology, Close Contact,Epidemiology, Index Case,Epidemiology, Index Patient,Epidemiology, PUI,Epidemiology, Patient Zero,Investigation, Contact,Partner Notifications,Screening, Contact,Tracing, Contact