Affiliations 

  • 1 Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 59990, Malaysia. hdarraji@gmail.com
BMC Public Health, 2014 Jan 10;14:22.
PMID: 24405607 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-22

Abstract

Prisons continue to fuel tuberculosis (TB) epidemics particularly in settings where access to TB screening and prevention services is limited. Malaysia is a middle-income country with a relatively high incarceration rate of 138 per 100,000 population. Despite national TB incidence rate remaining unchanged over the past ten years, data about TB in prisons and its contribution to the overall national rates does not exist. This survey was conducted to address the prevalence of latent TB infection (LTBI) in Malaysia's largest prison.

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