Volume 9, Number 2, February 2003

Annual Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Risk and Interpretation of Clustering Statistics

Emilia Vynnycky,* Martien W. Borgdorff,† Dick van Soolingen,‡ and Paul E.M. Fine*
*London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, England; †Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association, The Hague, the Netherlands; and ‡National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Figure 3. Model predictions of the proportion of disease attributable to primary and exogenous disease during the period 1993–1997 in the Netherlands and settings in which the annual risk for infection has remained unchanged over time at 0.1%, 1%, and 3% per year.

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