Active and latent tuberculosis in prisoners in the Central-West Region of Brazil

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Anderson Oliveira Estevan, Sandra Maria do Valle Leone de Oliveira, Julio Croda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2013
• Subjects: Prisoners; Bacille Calmette-Guerin; Latent tuberculosis; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Calmette
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-1441-2013; https://doaj.org/article/08a9e5b48ec74c9f87c48f3eaec5bb71

Introduction Jailed populations exhibit high rates of tuberculosis (TB) infection and active disease. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed to estimate the prevalence of latent and active TB and to identify factors associated with latent infection in inmates. Results The prevalence of latent...