Tuberculosis Incidence in Prisons: A Systematic Review

2010345 citationsReviewgold Open Access

Authors

Iacopo Baussano · Piedmont Reference Center for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention

Brian Williams · World Health Organization

Paul Nunn · World Health Organization

Marta Beggiato · Piedmont Reference Center for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention

Ugo Fedeli · Ospedaliero di Castelfranco Veneto

Fabio Scano · World Health Organization

Abstract

The very high IRR and the substantial population attributable fraction show that much better TB control in prisons could potentially protect prisoners and staff from within-prison spread of TB and would significantly reduce the national burden of TB. Future studies should measure the impact of the conditions in prisons on TB transmission and assess the population attributable risk of prison-to-community spread. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

Topics & Keywords

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Emergency and Acute Care Studies Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Reduced inequalitiesNo poverty

Publication Details

Published in: PLoS Medicine

Volume 7, Issue 12, pp. e1000381-e1000381

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000381

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