TY - JOUR AU - Oeltmann, John AU - Oren, Eyal AU - Haddad, Maryam AU - Lake, Linda AU - Harrington, Theresa AU - Ijaz, Kashef AU - Narita, Masahiro T1 - Tuberculosis Outbreak in Marijuana Users, Seattle, Washington, 2004 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 7 SP - 1156 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Matching Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were noted among 11 young tuberculosis patients socially linked through illicit drug–related activities. A large proportion of their friends, 14 (64%) of 22, had positive tuberculin skin-test results. The behavior of "hotboxing" (smoking marijuana inside a closed car with friends to repeatedly inhale exhaled smoke) fueled transmission. KW - Tuberculosis, pulmonary KW - Outbreaks KW - Marijuana smoking, Dispatch KW - Washington KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1207.051436 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/7/05-1436_article ER - End of Reference