Volume 14, Number 9—September 2008
Perspective
Preventing and Controlling Emerging and Reemerging Transmissible Diseases in the Homeless
Table 2
Interventions to control and prevent the spread of infections in the homeless*
Infections and specific interventions | References |
---|---|
HIV, HCV, HBV infections | |
Tailored education of targeted population on reducing infection risk with provision of free condoms | (16,19) |
Syringe prescription program and needle exchange programs |
(20) |
HBV, HAV infections | |
HBV accelerated immunization | (21,22) |
HAV immunization |
(8) |
Tuberculosis | |
Shelter based-intervention with chest radiograph screening, sputum culture, tuberculin skin testing | (17,24,25,27) |
Genotyping | (7,23) |
Contact investigation through homeless shelters |
(7,23) |
Influenza, diphtheria, Streptococcus pneumoniae infections | |
Systematic vaccination |
|
Scabies, body louse infestation | |
Providing facilities for bathing and laundry; insecticide application to bedding in shelters | (5,34,35) |
Ivermectin for scabies, body louse, and ectoparasite-based pruritus |
(18,34) |
Louse-borne diseases | |
Doxycycline and gentamicin for persons with chronic Bartonella quintana bacteremia | (39) |
Doxycycline for persons with epidemic typhus | (32) |
*HCV, hepatitis C virus; HBV, hepatitis B virus; HAV, hepatitis A virus.
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