Tuberculosis Incidence and the Seroprevalence of HIV Infection in the United States

The role of diabetes mellitus in the higher prevalence of tuberculosis among Hispanics.

“…The HIV seroprevalence among military recruits in California, however, is higher among Blacks (0.6% vs 0.2% in all races). 23 tuberculosis.32 However, our approach is not handicapped by the small number of group units (1508 zip codes in total), and excluding zip code data from our analysis does not change the estimate of risk of tuberculosis for diabetic patients. Most patients with tuberculosis are initially hospitalized, and the decision to hospitalize is not known to be influenced by a concomitant diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.…”

Tuberculosis Skin Testing Among Homeless Adults

“…8 A multiplicity of factors, including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, increasing poverty and homelessness in America's cities, illicit drug use, budgetary constraints on local health departments, immigration from high-prevalence nations, and high rates of noncompliance among TB patients, have contributed to the resurgence of TB. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Previous research on homeless adults demonstrated their elevated risk of asymptomatic TB infection, active disease, and multidrug-resistant TB. [23][24][25][26][27][28] Further, reports have cited outbreaks of TB in emergency shelters for the homeless in Boston and Ohio, 29,30 as well as in a neighborhood bar frequented by a homeless person with active disease.…”