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Investigating the prevalence of latent Tuberculosis infection in a UK remand prison

Author(s) -

Benjamin J Gray,

Stephanie E. Perrett,

Brian Gudgeon,

Ananda Giri Shankar

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdy219

Subject(s) - prison , remand (court procedure) , tuberculosis , medicine , public health , latent tuberculosis , epidemiology , psychiatry , psychology , criminology , political science , mycobacterium tuberculosis , law , pathology , supreme court

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health issue and in low-incidence countries guidance identifies the need to screen for and treat latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) with the prison environment recommended as a setting to perform LTBI screening. This study describes the findings of a LTBI screening programme which took place on entry to a remand prison in the UK.

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