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Crack cocaine and infectious tuberculosis

Emerging Infectious Diseases (2008) 14(9) 1466-1469
DOI: 10.3201/eid1409.070654
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Abstract

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.

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Story, A., Bothamley, G., & Hayward, A. (2008). Crack cocaine and infectious tuberculosis. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 14(9), 1466–1469. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1409.070654

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