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Volume 31, Number 3—March 2025
Dispatch

National Active Case-Finding Program for Tuberculosis in Prisons, Peru, 2024

Esther JungComments to Author , Valentina A. Alarcón, Wilfredo Santos Solís Tupes, Tatiana Avalos-Cruz, Marco Tovar, Erika Abregu, Max Z. Yang, Jason R. Andrews1, and Moises A. Huaman1
Author affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA (E. Jung, M.Z. Yang, J.R. Andrews); Dirección de Prevención y Control de Tuberculosis (DPCTB), Ministerio de Salud, Lima, Peru (V.A. Alarcón, W.S. Solís Tupes, T. Avalos-Cruz, E. Abregu); Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima (M. Tovar); Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima (M. Tovar); University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (M.A. Huaman)

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Figure 1

Locations and screening results in a national active case-finding program for TB in prisons, Peru, 2024. A) Locations of 18 facilities included in screening procedures; insets magnify Lima/Callao and Piura departments. B) Bar diagram displaying TB and RR-TB prevalence by prison, sorted by descending TB prevalence. RR-TB percentage is of total TB cases. Dotted line shows overall TB prevalence of 2.8% across all prisons. TB cases were defined as any positive or trace result via Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Cepheid, https://www.cepheid.com). EP, Establecimiento Penitenciario (penitentiary establishment); Juvenil Miguel Grau, Centro Juvenil de Diagnóstico y Rehabilitación Miguel Grau; Mujeres, women’s prison, RR-TB, rifampin-resistant TB; TB, tuberculosis; Varones, men’s prison.

Figure 1. Locations and screening results in a national active case-finding program for TB in prisons, Peru, 2024. A) Locations of 18 facilities included in screening procedures; insets magnify Lima/Callao and Piura departments. B) Bar diagram displaying TB and RR-TB prevalence by prison, sorted by descending TB prevalence. RR-TB percentage is of total TB cases. Dotted line shows overall TB prevalence of 2.8% across all prisons. TB cases were defined as any positive or trace result via Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Cepheid, https://www.cepheid.com). EP, Establecimiento Penitenciario (penitentiary establishment); Juvenil Miguel Grau, Centro Juvenil de Diagnóstico y Rehabilitación Miguel Grau; Mujeres, women’s prison, RR-TB, rifampin-resistant TB; TB, tuberculosis; Varones, men’s prison.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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