An unanswered health disparity: Tuberculosis among correctional inmates, 1993 through 2003

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1800-1805

  MacNeil, Jessica R ^a   Lobato, Mark N ^b   Moore, Marisa ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRISON; PRISONER; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRISONERS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 25444456103     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.055442     Document Type: Article

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