@article {Gninafon:2011:1027-3719:61,
title = "Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Benin",
journal = "The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease",
parent_itemid = "infobike://iuatld/ijtld",
publishercode ="iuatld",
year = "2011",
volume = "15",
number = "1",
publication date ="2011-01-01T00:00:00",
pages = "61-66",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1027-3719",
eissn = "1815-7920",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iuatld/ijtld/2011/00000015/00000001/art00012",
keyword = "epidemiology, Benin, national tuberculosis programme, tuberculosis",
author = "Gninafon, M. and Tr{\’e}bucq, A. and Rieder, H. L.",
abstract = "SETTING: Benin, West Africa.OBJECTIVE: To describe the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in Benin.DESIGN: Analysis of two tuberculin surveys initiated in 1987 and 1994 and of the quarterly reports of the Basic Management Units to the National Tuberculosis Programme from 1995 to 2007.RESULTS: The average annual risk for a child in Benin of becoming infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis was around 0.5% in the mid 1980s. The notification rate increased by approximately 1% each year over the observation period and was on average 35 per 100000 population, with a male-to-female sex ratio of 1.8 and no shift in the age structure of the cases over the observation period. Human immunodeficiency virus prevalence was 14% (97% of the patients were tested). There is a strong gradient of incident notification rates from the north to the south of the country that seems to be related to the population density.CONCLUSION: Both the tuberculin skin test survey results and the notification data suggest that the TB problem in Benin is much smaller than in eastern and southern African countries.",
}