1. Public Health Laboratory Service, Diseases Notifiable under the Public Health Act 1984. Annual totals 1991–2001 show a steady increase in incidence from 5436 in 1992 to 6572 in 2001. PHLS website at http://www.phls.co.uk.
2. For example, Wandsworth (Nursery teacher and 24 children infected with TB, The Independent 10 May 2001); Leicester (Resurgent, deadly disease that spreads like common cold becoming ominous, The Independent 6 April 2001); and South Wales (Screening for pupils after eight catch TB, The Independent 21 April 2001).
3. Geographical distribution of tuberculosis notification in national surveys of England and Wales in 1988 and 1993;Ormerod;Thorax,1999
4. Tuberculosis, ethnicity and HIV co-infection in London in 1998;Rose;Thorax,1999