Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil.
Tarub S MabudMaria de Lourdes Delgado AlvesAlbert I KoSanjay BasuKatharine S WalterTed CohenBarun MathemaCaroline ColijnEverton LemosJulio Henrique da Rosa CrodaJason R AndrewsPublished in: PLoS medicine (2019)
Our findings suggest that the prison environment, more so than the prison population itself, drives TB incidence, and targeted interventions within prisons could have a substantial effect on the broader TB epidemic.