Tuberculosis behind bars in Latin America and Caribbean: A growing public health crisis
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
.
2022 Dec;43(12):2000-2002.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.424.
Epub 2021 Oct 6.
Authors
Zarmina Islam
1
,
Pawan Kumar Thada
2
,
Zainab Syyeda Rahmat
1
,
Samaa Akhtar
3
,
Shkaib Ahmad
4
,
Ana Carla Dos Santos Costa
5
,
Mohammad Mehedi Hasan
6
7
,
Shoaib Ahmad
2
,
Mohammad Yasir Essar
8
Affiliations
1
Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
2
Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
3
University of London, London, United Kingdom.
4
Dera Ghazi Khan Medical College, Punjab, Pakistan.
5
Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
6
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
7
Division of Infectious Diseases, The Red-Green Research Centre, BICCB, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
8
Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan.
PMID:
34612189
DOI:
10.1017/ice.2021.424
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
MeSH terms
Caribbean People
Caribbean Region / epidemiology
Humans
Latin America / epidemiology
Public Health*
Tuberculosis* / epidemiology
Tuberculosis* / prevention & control