[Study of tuberculosis in Huelva prison].
Autor: | Sánchez Moreno A; Servicio Médico, Centro Penitenciario, Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez, Huelva., Villena Martínez L, Castro Recio JM, Aguayo Canela M, Pujol de la Llave E |
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Jazyk: | Spanish; Castilian |
Zdroj: | Anales de medicina interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984) [An Med Interna] 1997 Dec; Vol. 14 (12), pp. 607-10. |
Abstrakt: | Objectives: Knowing about the rate of tuberculous infection and disease in prison population and workers in Huelva prison, and the association of tuberculosis with the sociosanitary risk factors. Equipment and Methods: Descriptive research for a year in 141 male prisoners at the age of 20 to 52 years old, from the 1sT of February in 1994 to the 1sT in 1995. Results: The prevalence on tuberculous infection is 46.4% (accumulative incidence); and tuberculous disease 3.5% (accumulative incidence 1.4%) on the prisoners and the prevalence on tuberculous infection on the prison officers is 18.8% (there wasn't incidence) and the was no disease. Conclusions: It's perceived a high rate of tuberculous disease on the prisoners at the expense of people with infection by HIV and drugs addicts by parenteral way. The socio-cultural variables affect the tuberculous infection and disease tuberculous. |
Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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