Tuberculosis transmission in the Indigenous peoples of the Canadian prairies.

ABSTRACT:

Setting

The prairie provinces of Canada.

Objective

To characterize tuberculosis (TB) transmission among the Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadian-born peoples of the prairie provinces of Canada.

Design

A prospective epidemiologic study of consecutively diagnosed adult (age ≥ 14 years) Canadian-born culture-positive pulmonary TB cases on the prairies, hereafter termed "potential transmitters," and the transmission events generated by them. "Transmission events" included new positive tuberculin skin tests (TSTs), TST conversions, and secondary cases among contacts.

Results

In the years 2007 and 2008, 222 potential transmitters were diagnosed on the prairies. Of these, the vast majority (198; 89.2%) were Indigenous peoples who resided in either an Indigenous comm

SUBMITTER: Patel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5685619 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature