Housing and tuberculosis in an Inuit village in northern Quebec: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Between November 2011 and November 2012, an Inuit village in Nunavik, Quebec experienced a surge in the occurrence of active TB; contact investigations showed that TB infection was highly prevalent (62.6%), particularly among those over age 14 years (78.8%). A nested case-control study showed that nutritional inadequacy was associated with acquisition of infection but not progression to disease. We performed a study to determine whether characteristics of one's dwelling were associated with 1) acquisition of newly diagnosed TB infection and 2) progression to confirmed or probable disease among those with TB infection.

Methods

In this nested case-control study, we enrolled 200 people who were household or social contacts of at least 1 person with active TB or had r

SUBMITTER: Khan FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5047805 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature