1. Outbreak of Tuberculosis and Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Mbuji-Mayi Central Prison, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Kayomo, Michel Kaswa, Hasker, Epco, Aloni, Muriel, Nkuku, Léontine, Kazadi, Marcel, Kabengele, Thierry, Muteteke, Dorcas, Kapita, François, Lufulwabo, Alphonse, Mukadi, Ya Diul, Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques, Ieven, Margareta, Jong, Bouke C. de, Boelaert, Marleen, and de Jong, Bouke C
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TUBERCULOSIS ,MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis ,TUBERCULOSIS patients ,PRISONERS ,MALNUTRITION ,RIFAMPIN - Abstract
After an alert regarding ≈31 tuberculosis (TB) cases, 3 of which were rifampin-resistant TB cases, in Mbuji-Mayi Central Prison, Democratic Republic of the Congo, we conducted an outbreak investigation in January 2015. We analyzed sputum of presumptive TB patients by using the Xpert MTB/RIF assay. We also assessed the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates' drug-susceptibility patterns and risk factors for TB infection. Among a prison population of 918 inmates, 29 TB case-patients were already undergoing treatment. We found an additional 475 presumptive TB case-patients and confirmed TB in 170 of them. In March 2015, the prevalence rate of confirmed TB was 21.7% (199/918 inmates). We detected an additional 14 cases of rifampin-resistant TB and initiated treatment in all 14 of these case-patients. Overcrowded living conditions and poor nutrition appeared to be the driving factors behind the high TB incidence in this prison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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