The incidence of tuberculosis among North Carolina migrant farmworkers, 1991. | Zendy

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The incidence of tuberculosis among North Carolina migrant farmworkers, 1991.

Author(s) -

S Ciesielski,

Douglas H. Esposito,

J Protiva,

Mark Piehl

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.84.11.1836

Subject(s) - tuberculin , tuberculosis , medicine , sputum , incidence (geometry) , interim , immunology , active tuberculosis , environmental health , demography , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology , geography , physics , archaeology , sociology , optics

All locatable subjects (n = 94) for whom tuberculosis prevalence had been determined in an earlier study were tested with purified protein derivative (PPD) and control antigens, sputum sampling, and chest x-rays. Of the 46 who had been tuberculin negative (confirmed with control antigens) 3 years earlier, 2 had developed active tuberculosis in the interim and 14 (30%) were tuberculin positive. All had been engaged continuously in migrant farmwork. Lack of access to health care, an institutional feature of migrant farmwork, was significantly associated with primary infection.

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