“…Information on the percentage of illiteracy, poor and/or extremely poor, unemployed, households without garbage collection and the number of residents per household, which revealed significance in the univariate analysis, has also been cited in the specialized literature as conditions associated with infection by TB. Studies (ALBUQUERQUE et al, 2007;XIMENES et al, 2009;BELO et al, 2011;PEREIRA et al 2015, PEDRO et al, 2017MAGALHÃES et al, 2017) indicated an association between TB infection and being part of a middle/low social class, mainly in the occurrence of TB infection associated with the HIV virus and resistant forms of the disease (PEREIRA et al 2018). Others pointed out that low education (ALBUQUERQUE et al 2007;BELO et al, 2011;PEREIRA et al 2015;MAGALHÃES et al 2017;SILVA et al, 2018), absence of sewage (DYE et al, 2009;PEREIRA et al, 2015;PEDRO et al 2017;MAGALHÃES et al 2017) and garbage collection service (OLIVEIRA; GONCALVES, 2013; PEDRO; OLIVEIRA, 2013), as well as job vacancy (PEREIRA et al 2015;MAGALHÃES et al 2017) are also associated with a greater presence of TB.…”