An Epidemic of Tuberculosis with a High Rate of Tuberculin Anergy among a Population Previously Unexposed to Tuberculosis, the Yanomami Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alexandra O. Sousa
Julia I. Salem
Francis K. Lee
Maria C. Vercosa
Philippe Cruaud
Barry R. Bloom
Philippe H. Lagrange
Hugo L. David
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 94, no. 24, November 25, 1997, pp. 13227-13232
Description
Yanomami people had been isolated from the tubercle bacillus until the mid-1960s, which allowed scientists to look at statistics and specific aspects of TB.