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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Counting the costs: A review of two tuberculosis mass contact screening investigations

Cait Lonie, Michael Levy and Michael Frommer

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 5(2) 13 - 15
Published: 1994

Abstract

Methods to control the spread of tuberculosis include effective treatment of active cases and screening for infection. Mass screening of the community with annual chest x-rays was a major component of the Australian Tuberculosis Campaign between 1948 and 1976.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB94008

© NSW Department of Health 1994

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