Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
Dispatch
Increased Risk for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Migratory Workers, Armenia
Nune Truzyan
, Byron Crape, Ruzanna Grigoryan, Hripsime Martirosyan, and Varduhi Petrosyan
, Byron Crape, Ruzanna Grigoryan, Hripsime Martirosyan, and Varduhi Petrosyan
Table 1
Characteristics of 126 migrant workers and all TB patients in Armenia, 2008–2011*
| Characteristic | No. positive/ no. tested (%) |
Year, no. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survey participants, n = 95 | Refused to participate, n = 31 | 2008, n = 2,125 | 2009, n = 2,006 | 2010, n = 1,780 | 2011, n = 1,584 | |
| HIV/TB co-infection | 5/94 (5.3) | 1/30 (3.2) | 12 (0.6)† | 17 (0.9)† | 17 (1.0)† | 49 (3.1) |
| MDR TB | 26/92 (28.3) | 5/31 (16.1) | 77 (3.6)† | 134 (6.7)† | 154 (8.7)† | 88 (5.6)† |
| Extrapulmonary TB | 1/94 (1.1) | 4/31 (12.9)† | 380 (17.9)† | 374 (18.6)† | 429 (24.1)† | 361 (22.8)† |
| SS+ at time of diagnosis | 47/93 (50.5) | 15/31 (48.4) | 679 (32.0)† | 561 (28.0)† | 434 (24.4)† | 420 (26.5)† |
*MDR TB, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; SS+, sputum smear positive.
†Significant differences (p≤0.001) vs noninfected survey participants.
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