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KMID : 0383819580050020059
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
1958 Volume.5 No. 2 p.59 ~ p.64
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A SMALL EPIDEMIC OF TUBERCULOSIS IN A RURAL VILLAGE
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박승서(朴昇緖)/S.S Park
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Abstract
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1) As a result of mass-survey for the whole unfanitants of Yun-soo-dong, a small
epodemic of tuberculosis was found in Poosoodi a very small village of 239 infabitants
The morbidity rated to 10% and tuberculin semsitivity to 81%
2) 7 adult cases of moderately or far advanced pulmonary tuberoulosis were found in
such a small community. 4 cases of them were cavitary form and supposed to have
played an important role as potent sources of infection.
3) 13 cases of primary type were found among the age groups less than 15 years,
constituting the main part of victims of the epidemic caused by the potent sources of 10
infection. 10 of those 13 cases were found among the 0-4 age group. The morbidity and
infection rate in this age group were extremely high, spiking up to 28% and 44%
respectively. In the cases of 3 chronic pulmonary tuberculosis (adult type) among
adolescence, the intimate and long-standing contacts with those open cases are supposed
to have influenced on the development of disease.
4) Frequent and intimate contacts with neighbors and the poor conditions if hygiene in
rural area are supposed to have played an important role in the spread of tuberculosis
by providing an environment suitable for the spread of infection
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