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THE following results as to the incidence of tuberculosis in Peru were recently obtained by Dr. Ricardo Martinez of Lima (J. Amer. Med. Assoc., Oct. 24). A positive index to tuberculin was found in 68.45 per cent of conscripts, 65 per cent in school children of the Callao province, 77.98 per cent among the applicants for entrance to the University of Lima, and 95 per cent in the various groups of teachers and unions of workers. The proportion of positive reactions to tuberculin in conscripts from coastal areas was 74.64 per cent, 58.43 in those from the mountains and 75 per cent in those from wooded regions. The positive results to tuberculin are higher in Peru than in the Argentine, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and less than in Cuba and Venezuela. X-ray examinations of school children show that active tuberculosis increased from 4.1 per cent in 1938 to 5.3 per cent in 1941.
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Tuberculosis in Peru. Nature 151, 557 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151557b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151557b0