[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
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