title: [Active tuberculosis in a cohort of HIV-infected inmates in a prison in Mexico City: clinical and epidemiological characteristics].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of prison inmates with active tuberculosis in HIV-positive prison populations.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a cohort study in HIV-infected subjects in a prison in Mexico City, with the aim of determining clinical and epidemiological characteristics of cases with active TB.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We detected 172 HIV infected inmates and TB in 28 of them (16.3%) - 21 (12.2) with pulmonary TB--with an incidence rate of 7.7/100 persons/year for active TB and 4.7/100 persons/year for pulmonary TB. No drug resistance was found. Two clusters (4 and 2 subjects) were observed after RFLP-typing of 18 isolates, with a transmission rate of 11% by molecular and clinical analysis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of active TB was found to be a thousand times greater than in the general population. Evidence of transmission inside the prison was also found.
authors: Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador, México.
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Hernández-León
authors: Florentino
authors: F
authors: Badial-Hernández
authors: Alfredo
authors: A
authors: Ponce-de-León
authors: Juan G
authors: JG
authors: Sierra-Madero
authors: Areli
authors: A
authors: Martínez-Gamboa
authors: Brenda
authors: B
authors: Crabtree-Ramírez
authors: Sergio
authors: S
authors: Bautista-Arredondo
authors: Adrián
authors: A
authors: González-Aguirre
authors: María de Lourdes
authors: Mde L
authors: Guerrero-Almeida
authors: J Miriam Bobadilla
authors: JM
authors: del Valle
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: González-Rodríguez
authors: José
authors: J
authors: Sifuentes-Osornio
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015331:Cohort Studies; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014504:Urban Health; D055815:Young Adult