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Volume 12, Number 7—July 2006

Dispatch

Tuberculosis Outbreak in Marijuana Users, Seattle, Washington, 2004

John E. Oeltmann*Comments to Author , Eyal Oren†, Maryam B. Haddad*, Linda K. Lake†, Theresa A. Harrington*, Kashef Ijaz*, and Masahiro Narita†‡
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Public Health–Seattle and King County Tuberculosis Control Program, Seattle, Washington, USA; ‡University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

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Table 1

Tuberculosis outbreak patient and disease characteristics, N = 11

Characteristic n
Patient
East African origin 10
Foreign birth 8
Male 9
Incarceration history 11
Recent victim of assault 7
Illicit drug use 11
Hotboxing 11
Unemployed 11
Disease
Pulmonary disease 11
Cavitary 7
Culture-confirmed 11
Sputum smear-positive for acid-fast bacilli 8
Symptomatic at diagnosis 9
HIV infection* 1

*Unknown for 1 patient.

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