Titre : | A no-name tuberculosis tracking system. (2003) |
Auteurs : | KIM (Dennis-Y) : USA. Epidemic Intelligence Service. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta. GA. ; David CROWDER ; Kelli GARRITY ; Beverly GILES ; Aleroy HATHCOCK ; Robert JACKSON ; Teresa MIRELES ; Renee RIDZON ; Zachary TAYLOR ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. USA ; Delaware Health and Social Services. Division of Public Health. Dover. USA ; Delaware Health and Social Services. Sussex County Health Unit. Georgetown. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 93, n° 10, 2003) |
Pagination : | 1637-1639 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Tuberculose ; Bactériose ; Infection ; Bactérie ; Homme ; Epidémiologie ; Identification ; Diagnostic ; Plante ; Ouvrier |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xWb4Xy. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Foreign-born persons from countries where tuberculosis (TB) is endemic make up a significant percentage of poultry industry workers in Delaware, a leading poultry-producing state. Many of these workers enter the United States without documentation and assume multiple identities, making it difficult for public health staff to investigate TB contacts who work in the poultry plants. The Sussex County Health Unit of the Delaware Division of Public Health developed a no-name TB tracking system to facilitate identification and treatment of poultry plant workers with TB infection and disease in a high-risk population whose members assume one or more aliases. Completion rates for treatment of latent TB infection in this group increased from 48% to 64% 2 years after the program's implementation. |