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Substantial Overlap Between Incarceration and Tuberculosis in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011
- Source :
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press, 2014.
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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.
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23288957
- Volume :
- 1
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2b961491e56cf36e7dcd5931929a8c06