Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Research
Rates and Risk Factors for Coccidioidomycosis among Prison Inmates, California, USA, 2011
Charlotte Wheeler
, Kimberley D. Lucas, and Janet C. Mohle-Boetani
, Kimberley D. Lucas, and Janet C. Mohle-Boetani
Table 1
Coccidioidomycosis cases in prison X, prison Y, and prisons 1–6; in the communities surrounding the prisons X and Y and in Kern County, California; and in the state of California, USA, 2011
| Location |
No. cases |
Mid-year population |
Cases/100,000 population |
| Prison X | 317 | 4,572 | 6,934 |
| Prison Y |
218 |
5,738 |
3,799 |
| Prison 1 | 3 | 5,647 | 53 |
| Prison 2 | 11 | 6,389 | 172 |
| Prison 3 | 10 | 5,051 | 198 |
| Prison 4 | 10 | 4,682 | 214 |
| Prison 5 | 11 | 4,938 | 223 |
| Prison 6 |
14 |
5,908 |
237 |
| Communities | |||
| City of prison X* | 172 | 12,821 | 1,342 |
| City of prison Y† | 53 | 9,210 | 575 |
| County of prison X | 376 | 934,875 | 40 |
| County of prison Y† | 131 | 145,961 | 90 |
| Kern County |
2,568 |
848,958 |
302 |
| California*† | 4,607 | 37,559,818 | 12 |
*Prison X case and population counts were subtracted from these surrounding communities’ case and population counts.
†Prison Y case and population counts were subtracted from these surrounding communities’ case and population counts.
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