Substantial overlap between incarceration and tuberculosis in atlanta, georgia, 2011

Maryam B Haddad; Mary K Foote; Susan M Ray; David M Maggio; Rose-Marie F Sales; Min Jung Kim; Russell R Kempker; Anne C Spaulding

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofu041

Substantial overlap between incarceration and tuberculosis in atlanta, georgia, 2011

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2014 Jun 30;1(1):ofu041. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofu041. eCollection 2014 Mar.

Authors

Maryam B Haddad¹, Mary K Foote², Susan M Ray³, David M Maggio⁴, Rose-Marie F Sales⁴, Min Jung Kim⁵, Russell R Kempker², Anne C Spaulding⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology , Rollins School of Public Health ; Laney Graduate School.
² Emory University School of Medicine , Emory University , Atlanta , Georgia.
³ Emory University School of Medicine , Emory University , Atlanta , Georgia ; Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta , Georgia.
⁴ Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta , Georgia.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology , Rollins School of Public Health.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology , Rollins School of Public Health ; Emory University School of Medicine , Emory University , Atlanta , Georgia.

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.

Keywords: homelessness; jails; prisons; public health surveillance; tuberculosis.

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