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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 14, Issue 9, Pages 1466-1469Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid1409.070654
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- Health Protection Agency
- Department of Health for England and Wales
- National Institute for Health Research [RP-PG-0407-10340] Funding Source: researchfish
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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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