Increased Risk for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Migratory Workers, Armenia
- Nune Truzyan
- Byron Crape
- Ruzanna Grigoryan
- Hripsime Martirosyan
- Varduhi Petrosyan
Publication date
March 2015
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
To understand use of tuberculosis (TB) services for migrant workers, we conducted a cross-sectional census of 95 migrant workers with TB from Armenia by using medical record reviews and face-to-face interviews. Prolonged time between diagnosis and treatment, treatment interruption, and treatment defaults caused by migrant work might increase the risk for multidrug-resistant TB
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