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Volume 29, Number 3—March 2023
Synopsis

Risk for Prison-to-Community Tuberculosis Transmission, Thailand, 2017–2020

Reiko MiyaharaComments to Author , Pundharika Piboonsiri, Boonchai Chiyasirinroje, Worarat Imsanguan, Supalert Nedsuwan, Hideki Yanai, Katsushi Tokunaga, Prasit Palittapongarnpim, Megan Murray, and Surakameth Mahasirimongkol
Author affiliations: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (R. Miyahara); National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo (R. Miyahara, K. Tokunaga); Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (R. Miyahara, M. Murray); The University of Tokyo, Tokyo (P. Piboonsiri); Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand (P. Piboonsiri, S. Mahasirimongkol); TB/HIV Research Foundation, Chiang Rai, Thailand (B. Chiyasirinroje); Chiangrai PrachChanukroh Hospital, Chiang Rai (W. Imsanguan, S. Nedsuwan); Fukujuji Hospital and Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Kiyose, Japan (H. Yanai); National Center Biobank Network, Tokyo (K. Tokunaga):; Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (P. Palittapongarnpim); Harvard Medical School, Boston (M. Murray)

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Table 1

Characteristics of nonincarcerated TB patients and formerly incarcerated TB patients, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, December 2017–February 2020*

Characteristic Nonincarcerated TB patients, n = 532 Formerly incarcerated TB patients, n = 60 p value
Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 0.006
1 256 (48.1) 15 (25.0)
2 201 (37.8) 35 (58.3)
3 6 (1.1) 1 (1.7)
4
 69 (13.0)
 9 (15.0)
Age, y 0.047
18–39 101 (19.0) 13 (21.7)
40–49 99 (18.6) 18 (30.0)
50-–9 139 (26.1) 17 (28.3)
>60
 60 (36.3)
 12 (20.0)
Sex 0.001
M 373 (70.1) 54 (90.0)
F
 159 (30.0)
 6 (10.0)
Ethnicity 0.032
Thai 408 (76.7) 37 (61.7)
Hill tribe 115 (21.6) 15 (36.7)
Other
 9 (1.7)
 9 (1.7)
TB history 0.002
No 508 (95.5) 53 (88.3)
Yes 24 (4.5) 6 (10.0)
Unknown
 0
 1 (1.7)
Prison year
Before 1999 NA 11 (18.3)
2000–2004 NA 5 (8.3)
2005–2009 NA 15 (25.0)
2010–2014 NA 16 (26.7)
After 2015 NA 12 (20.0)
Unknown
 NA
 1 (2.9)
Prison time, y
<1 NA 35 (58.3)
1–2 NA 5 (8.3)
>2 NA 20 (33.3)

*NA, not applicable; TB, tuberculosis.

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