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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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Table 1

Multivariable logistic regression analysis of demographic characteristics and risk factors for tuberculosis in a national active case-finding program for TB in prisons, Peru, 2024*

Risk factor No. tested No. (%) TB confirmed OR (95% CI) p value aOR (95% CI)† p value
Age group, y
18–29 11,193 382 (3.4)
30–44 17,557 486 (2.8) 0.81 (0.70–0.92) 0.002 0.68 (0.59–0.78) <0.001
45–60 7,708 169 (2.2) 0.64 (0.53–0.77) <0.001 0.54 (0.45–0.65) <0.001
>60 2,274 52 (2.3) 0.67 (0.49–0.88) 0.006 0.58 (0.42–0.77) <0.001
NA
 2
 0
Sex
M 37,227 1,081 (2.9) 5.61 (3.00–12.33) <0.001 3.78 (1.20–22.94) 0.062
F
 1,507
 8 (0.5)
TB history
Y 6,232 397 (6.4) 3.16 (2.78–3.58) <0.001 2.75 (2.41–3.13) <0.001
N
 32,502
 692 (2.1)
TB contact
Y 15,459 556 (3.6) 1.61 (1.43–1.82) <0.001 1.90 (1.56–2.30) <0.001
N
 23,275
 533 (2.3)
Peru origin
Y 36,596 1,054 (2.9) 1.80 (1.30–2.57) 0.001 1.67 (1.20–2.41) 0.004
N 2,138 35 (1.6)

*The program screened 38,734 incarcerated persons during January–September 2024. aOR, adjusted odds ratio; NA, not available; OR, odds ratio; TB, tuberculosis. †aORs include fixed effects for prison and are adjusted for age, sex, TB history, TB contact, and Peru origin.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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