PMID: 9175195Jun 1, 1997Paper

Tuberculosis infection among people with severe mental illness

Psychiatric Services : a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association
H L McQuistionE Susser

Abstract

In a study of the prevalence of tuberculosis infection and risk factors for infection among people with severe mental illness, 71 participants in a psychiatric day program were given a tuberculin skin test. Twelve of the 71 subjects (17 percent) had positive results. None had active tuberculosis. Those with tuberculosis infection were more likely to be immigrants and to be above the study group's median age of 32. Eleven of the 12 infected subjects had experienced at least one of seven risk factors for tuberculosis infection, which suggests that more clinical attention should be placed on tuberculosis infection in this population.

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Sep 7, 2007·Lancet·Martin PrinceAtif Rahman
Feb 12, 2009·Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology·A Rahman, M Prince
May 22, 2013·Tuberculosis Research and Treatment·Argiro PachiAthanasios Tselebis
May 11, 2013·General Hospital Psychiatry·Anne M DohertyJohn Cooney
Nov 29, 2017·Frontiers in Psychiatry·Kao-Chi ChengShih-Wei Lai
Jun 30, 2019·Journal of Leukocyte Biology·Kehong ZhangXinchun Chen

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