Koo D T, Baron R C, Rutherford G W
Division of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Am J Public Health. 1997 Feb;87(2):279-82. doi: 10.2105/ajph.87.2.279.
An investigation was conducted to determine whether ongoing transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was occurring in a California state prison.
Prison pharmacy records were used to identify cases of active tuberculosis (TB).
Ten of the 18 cases of active TB treated at the facility during 1991 were diagnosed at the prison that same year (an incidence of 184 per 100,000). Three inmates were infectious for a total of 7 months while imprisoned. The prevalence of TB skin test-positivity among inmates was 30%, and the incidence of new infection attributable to incarceration was 5.9 per 100 inmates per year.
Transmission of M. tuberculosis may be occurring in the California prison system.
开展一项调查以确定加利福尼亚州一所监狱内是否正在发生结核分枝杆菌的持续传播。
利用监狱药房记录来识别活动性结核病(TB)病例。
1991年在该机构接受治疗的18例活动性TB病例中,有10例于同年在监狱被诊断出来(发病率为每10万人中有184例)。3名囚犯在监禁期间总共具有传染性达7个月。囚犯中TB皮肤试验阳性的患病率为30%,因监禁导致的新感染发病率为每年每100名囚犯中有5.9例。
加利福尼亚州监狱系统中可能正在发生结核分枝杆菌的传播。