title: A no-name tuberculosis tracking system.
abstract: Foreign-born persons from countries where tuberculosis (TB) is endemic make up a significant percentage of poultry industry workers in Delaware, a leading poultry-producing state. Many of these workers enter the United States without documentation and assume multiple identities, making it difficult for public health staff to investigate TB contacts who work in the poultry plants. The Sussex County Health Unit of the Delaware Division of Public Health developed a no-name TB tracking system to facilitate identification and treatment of poultry plant workers with TB infection and disease in a high-risk population whose members assume one or more aliases. Completion rates for treatment of latent TB infection in this group increased from 48% to 64% 2 years after the program's implementation.
authors.affiliation: Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Dennis Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Renee
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ridzon
authors.forename: Beverly
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Giles
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mireles
authors.forename: Kelli
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Garrity
authors.forename: A Leroy
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Hathcock
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Crowder
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Zachary
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D000818:Animals; D016358:Contact Tracing; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003691:Delaware / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D008462:Meat-Packing Industry; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011200:Poultry; D011635:Public Health Administration; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014374:Tuberculin Test; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control