TY - JOUR AU - Manabe, Toshie AU - Takasaki, Jin AU - Kudo, Koichiro PY - 2019 DA - 2019/06/06 TI - Seasonality of newly notified pulmonary tuberculosis in Japan, 2007–2015 JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 497 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - The seasonality of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) incidence may indicate season-specific risk factors that could be controlled if they were better understood. The aims of this study were to elucidate how the incidence of TB changes seasonally and to determine the factors influencing TB incidence, to reduce the TB burden in Japan. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3957-8 DO - 10.1186/s12879-019-3957-8 ID - Manabe2019 ER -