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Article: South Carolina Inmates with HIV Show Increased Rate of Tuberculosis Transmission.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- January 16, 2001
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2001 JAN 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An epidemiological investigation conducted at a South Carolina prison traced tuberculosis transmission to a single dormitory where inmates resided. The results of that investigation demonstrate the urgency in testing prison populations for tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is a well-known opportunistic infection in patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Prison inmates infected with HIV, like non-incarcerated individuals, are highly susceptible to tuberculosis transmissions.
A report of the investigation was presented at the 128(th) Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, held in Boston, ...