Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil.

Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil.

BACKGROUND:It has been hypothesized that prisons serve as amplifiers of general tuberculosis (TB) epidemics, but there is a paucity of data on this phenomenon and the potential population-level effects of prison-focused interventions. This study (1) quantifies the TB risk for prisoners as they trave...

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Main Authors: Tarub S Mabud, Maria de Lourdes Delgado Alves, Albert I Ko, Sanjay Basu, Katharine S Walter, Ted Cohen, Barun Mathema, Caroline Colijn, Everton Lemos, Julio Croda, Jason R Andrews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002737

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002737

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