South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
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To report on the magnitude and distribution of registered tuberculosis (TB) mortality rates in South Africa for 1994 and 1995 in the context of changes in overall mortality registration. ⋯ The deficiencies and changes in the vital registration system make it difficult to draw firm conclusions from these data, but there is an alarming increase in TB mortality that is unlikely to be an artefact of the data alone. Some of the increase in TB mortality is likely to be due to misreporting of cause of death of AIDS patients. An audit should be conducted to investigate the enormous disparities between vital registration TB mortality, and TB deaths recorded under the TB notification system.