Incidence of tuberculosis infection among New York State prison employees

Bibliographic Data

ID11028638
AuthorsKyle Steenland (0000-0001-7873-4678, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), Aubrey J Levine, Karl Sieber, Paul A Schulte (0000-0002-0696-0446), P Schulte, D Aziz, Saqiba Aziz
Year1997
Volume87
Issue12
Pages2012-2014
Publication date1997-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.87.12.2012
PMID9431293
OpenAlexW2077024397
LanguageEN
Citations received8

OBJECTIVES: This study examined tuberculosis skin test conversions among 24,487 New York State prison employees in 1992. METHODS: Conversions were analyzed by prison and by job category. RESULTS: The conversion rate was 1.9%. Employees in prisons with low and high numbers of prisoner cases had odds ratios for conversion of 1.67 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.27, 2.19) and 2.20 (95% CI = 1.69, 2.87), respectively, relative to employees in prisons with no prisoner cases. In prisons with cases, guards and medical personnel had odds ratios of 1.64 (95% CI = 1.11, 2.43) and 2.39 (95% CI = 1.40, 4.08), respectively, relative to employees with little prisoner contact. CONCLUSIONS: In 1992, approximately one third of new infections among New York State prison employees were due to occupational exposure

Criminology · Environmental health · Incidence (geometry) · Pathology · Prison · Sociology · Tuberculosis · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis · Medicine · Psychology · Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology · Gerontology

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