Peer education in prisons to improve tuberculosis case finding
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Tuberculosis in prisons.
A recent report from the United States has drawn attention to a dramatic increase in the incidence of tuberculosis in prisons in New York state-from 15 4 per 100 000 between 1976 and 1978 to 105 5 in 1986.' High rates of tuberculosis in prisons have been reported before in the United States,2 but the new and disturbing feature is that in 1986 over half of the prisoners with the disease also had...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Global Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2214-109X
DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(18)30566-7