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

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Maryam B. Haddad, Emory University; Mary K. Foote, Emory University; Susan Ray, Emory University; David M. Maggio, Georgia Department of Public Health; Rose-Marie F. Sales, Georgia Department of Public Health; Min Jung Kim, Emory University; Russell Kempker, Emory University; Anne C Spaulding, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2014-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © The Author 2014.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu041
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Open Forum Infectious Diseases
• ISSN: 2328-8957
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Start Page: ofu041
• End Page: ofu041
• Grant/Funding Information: This work was supported via the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1TR000454. R. R. K.'s work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH NIAID K23AI103044).; The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
• Keywords: public health surveillance; jails; homelessness; prisons; tuberculosis
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, General; Health Sciences, Public Health

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.