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Volume 24, Number 11—November 2018
Research

Outbreak of Tuberculosis and Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Mbuji-Mayi Central Prison, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Michel Kaswa KayomoComments to Author , Epco Hasker, Muriel Aloni, Léontine Nkuku, Marcel Kazadi, Thierry Kabengele, Dorcas Muteteke, François Kapita, Alphonse Lufulwabo, Ya Diul Mukadi, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Margareta Ieven, Bouke C. de Jong, and Marleen Boelaert
Author affiliations: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (M.K. Kayomo, E. Hasker, B.C. de Jong, M. Boelaert); National Tuberculosis Program, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (M.K. Kayomo, M. Aloni, M. Kazadi, T. Kabengele, D. Muteteke, F. Kapita, A. Lufulwabo); Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa (M.K. Kayomo, M. Aloni, L. Nkuku, J.-J. Muyembe-Tamfum); Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa (M.K. Kayomo, M. Aloni, J.-J. Muyembe-Tamfum); US Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA (Y.D. Mukadi); University of Antwerp, Antwerp (M. Ieven)

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Figure 1

Location of inmates in cells 4 and 7, Mbuji-Mayi Central Prison, Democratic Republic of the Congo, February 2015. A) Cell 4 is 37 m2, with 1 door (solid red line) and 2 windows (dashed red lines). B) Cell 7 is 37 m2, with 1 door (solid red line) and 1 window (dashed red line). Red figures indicate TB patients. Both cells are in the designated area 2 and are extremely overcrowded, having >163 inmates in each. Each inmate was assigned a space of 0.22 m2. Most (60%) TB patients were living in th

Figure 1. Location of inmates in cells 4 and 7, Mbuji-Mayi Central Prison, Democratic Republic of the Congo, February 2015. A) Cell 4 is 37 m2, with 1 door (solid red line) and 2 windows (dashed red lines). B) Cell 7 is 37 m2, with 1 door (solid red line) and 1 window (dashed red line). Red figures indicate TB patients. Both cells are in the designated area 2 and are extremely overcrowded, having >163 inmates in each. Each inmate was assigned a space of 0.22 m2. Most (60%) TB patients were living in the rear of the cell, which was characterized by poor ventilation and lack of sunshine. This drawing shows the nearly exact localization of inmates during their stay inside the cell; more space is available at the entrance of the cell, which is occupied by the “chief” of the cell. TB, tuberculosis.

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