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New Admissions and Asymptomatic TB Cases fuel TB Epidemic in Prisons, a Cross Sectional Survey in Tanzania

2023-08-24

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> There is an increased risk for tuberculosis (TB) infection and disease progression in prison settings. TB prevalence in prisons of high and middle/low income countries have been measured to be between 5 and 50 -times higher than in the general population. <h4>Methods</h4> We performed TB active case finding in five central prisons, Keko, Segerea, Ukonga, Butimba and Ruanda pri...

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Literature Corpus work: 0e44905b-d5df-55a2-a6d0-a2172c4be7a0
DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.23.23294476

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