TUBERCULOSIS IN INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS

The Medical Journal of AustraliaPublished 1 December 1975

E. W. Abrahams

DOI10.5694/j.1326-5377.1975.tb140421.x

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Disease in the Aboriginal population is found to be more acute, more extensive and more frequently non‐pulmonary, and tuberculosis should enter into the differential diagnosis of all III Aborigines.

Abstract

A comparative study of tuberculosis in Aboriginal and white Australians is presented. There is a much higher prevalence of disease in the Aboriginal population than in the white. From a study of the clinical features and response to treatment in paired cases, disease in the Aboriginal is found to be more acute, more extensive and more frequently non-pulmonary. As this disease pattern is unfamiliar to many Australian doctors, tuberculosis should enter into the differential diagnosis of all ill Aborigines.

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