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Volume 23, Number 3—March 2017
Dispatch

Increase in Tuberculosis Cases among Prisoners, Brazil, 2009–20141

Paul M. Bourdillon, Crhistinne C.M. Gonçalves, Daniele Maria Pelissari, Denise Arakaki-Sanchez, Albert I. Ko, Julio Croda, and Jason R. Andrews
Author affiliations: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (P.M. Bourdillon, A.I. Ko); Federal University of Grande Dourados, Dourados, Brazil (C.C.M. Gonçalves, J. Croda); University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (D.M. Pelissari); Ministry of Health of Brazil, Brasília, Brazil (D.M. Pelissari, D. Arakaki-Sanchez); Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Campo Grande and Salvador, Brazil (J Croda, A.I. Ko); Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA (J.R. Andrews)

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Table

Annual average data for tuberculosis notifications, by incarceration status and gender, Brazil, 2009–2014

Category
 General Population
Prisoners p value, men vs. women*
All
 Men
 Women
 All
 Men
 Women
Population, thousands 194,898 96,546 98,352 490 459 31 <0.0001
Annual no. cases 81,370 53,138 28,227 6,388 5,869 519 <0.0001
Notification rate, cases/100,000 population 42 55 29 1,307 1,281 1,703 0.001
HIV status reported, %† 66.1 66.6 65.3 65.9 65.9 66.0 0.97
HIV co-infection, %‡ 17.4 18.2 15.8 15.9 15.2 24.1 0.003
Smear positive, % 55.5 57.2 52.2 65.5 66.4 55.2 <0.0001
Extrapulmonary, % 17.5 16.4 19.5 8.2 7.4 16.7 0.0002
Treatment success, % 66.6 64.4 70.9 69.5 69.8 66.0 0.09

*p values calculated with the Welch t-test comparing prisoners’ annual data by sex.
†HIV status based on a positive or negative status result or AIDS diagnosis from the time of tuberculosis notification.
‡% HIV co-infection calculated as percentage positive HIV+ results among those with HIV status reported.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health, December 2–6, 2016, Cape Town, South Africa.

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