Skip Navigation


IJE Advance Access originally published online on August 24, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(5):932-934; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn103
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
37/5/932    most recent
dyn103v2
dyn103v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Related articles in Int. J. Epidemiol.
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Rieder, H. L
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Rieder, H. L
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Reconciling historical epidemiological, bacteriological and immunological observations in tuberculosis

Hans L Rieder

International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Jetzikofenstrasse 12, 3038 Kirchlindach, Switzerland. E-mail: TBRieder@tbrieder.org

Accepted 29 April 2008

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

Kristian Andvord1 had the remarkable insight that looking at cohort experience was by far more informative than a solely cross-sectional view of tuberculosis mortality data.2–4 A comprehensive paper by Andvord makes his thinking accessible for the English readership in this issue of the journal.

What Andvord unravelled is schematically shown in Figure 1a. A common presentation of tuberculosis surveillance data is reporting them as age-specific morbidity or mortality in a given calendar year. Any change in successive years . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?

Related articles in Int. J. Epidemiol.:

Continued Studies of Tuberculosis considered as a generation illness
Kristian F Andvord
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 917-922. [Extract] [FREE Full Text]  

Commentary: Tuberculosis down the generations—a comment on ‘Continued studies of Tuberculosis as a generation illness’ by Kr F Andvord
Peter DO Davies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 934-936. [Extract] [FREE Full Text]  

Commentary: Kristian Andvord—an under recognized star in the epidemiological firmament
Donald A Enarson
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 936-937. [Extract] [FREE Full Text]  

Commentary: Kristian Feyer Andvord's studies on the epidemiology of tuberculosis and the origin of generation cohort analysis
Øyvind Næss and Aina Schiøtz
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 923-932. [Extract] [FREE Full Text]  



This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Eur Respir JHome page
U. Mack, G. B. Migliori, M. Sester, H. L. Rieder, S. Ehlers, D. Goletti, A. Bossink, K. Magdorf, C. Holscher, B. Kampmann, et al.
LTBI: latent tuberculosis infection or lasting immune responses to M. tuberculosis? A TBNET consensus statement
Eur. Respir. J., May 1, 2009; 33(5): 956 - 973.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Int J EpidemiolHome page
G. D. Smith
How do we know, what do we know and what can knowledge do? From John Brownlee to translational medicine
Int. J. Epidemiol., October 1, 2008; 37(5): 911 - 913.
[Full Text] [PDF]