Correctional Healthcare

South Carolina Inmates with HIV Show Increased Rate of Tuberculosis Transmission

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 16th, 2001

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, Massachusetts. Steven I....

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