Crack Cocaine and Infectious Tuberculosis

Story, Alistair; Bothamley, Graham; Hayward, Andrew

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Crack Cocaine and Infectious Tuberculosis

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Sep 2008
By Story, Alistair ; Bothamley, Graham ; Hayward, Andrew

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Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Story, Alistair ; Bothamley, Graham ; Hayward, Andrew
Description:

We hypothesize that crack cocaine is independently associated with smear-positive tuberculosis (TB). In a case-control study of TB in London, 19 (86%) of 22 crack cocaine users with pulmonary TB were smear positive compared with 302 (36%) of 833 non-drug users. Respiratory damage caused by crack cocaine may predispose drug users to infectivity.
Subjects:

Adolescent Adult Case-Control Studies Crack Cocaine Dispatch Female Humans London Male Middle Aged Multivariate Analysis Risk Factors Street Drugs Substance-Related Disorders Tuberculosis
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 14(9):1466-1469
Pubmed ID:

18760022
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC2603115
Document Type:

Journal Article
Volume:

14
Issue:

9
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:3049c87fca1ae0ab57ef934e73efb23f0a01388ada2b7cf6352aa7b718af195b
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16875/cdc_16875_DS1.pdf
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