1. Substantial Overlap Between Incarceration and Tuberculosis in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011
- Author
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Min Jung Kim, Russell R. Kempker, Anne C. Spaulding, David M. Maggio, Rose-Marie F. Sales, Mary K. Foote, Susan M. Ray, and Maryam B. Haddad
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medicine.medical_specialty ,jails ,Tuberculosis ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Prison ,Bioinformatics ,prisons ,Public health surveillance ,medicine ,Retrospective analysis ,homelessness ,media_common ,biology ,business.industry ,social sciences ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,public health surveillance ,Atlanta ,Infectious Diseases ,Oncology ,tuberculosis ,Family medicine ,Brief Reports ,business - Abstract
Standard tuberculosis case reporting captures incarceration at diagnosis only. This retrospective analysis of 106 US-born adults with prevalent tuberculosis in 2011 found that 46.2% had documented histories of being in jail or prison, including 16.0% during the year before diagnosis.
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- 2014