Table 1.
Annual TB surveillance testing of incarcerated individuals, Ohio, 2004–2009a.
| Year | ODRC | PCI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tested | Positive TST | Tested | Positive TST | |||
| N | (%) | N | (%) | |||
| 2004 | 39,090 | 159 | (0.41) | 1,398 | 8 | (0.57) |
| 2005 | 39,448 | 132 | (0.33) | 1,362 | 0 | (0) |
| 2006 | 42,452 | 117 | (0.28) | 2,257 | 3 | (0.13) |
| 2007 | 44,812 | 91 | (0.20) | 2,171 | 15 | (0.69) |
| 2008 | 46,236 | 76 | (0.16) | 2,207 | 1 | (0.05) |
| 2009 | 46,875 | 28 | (0.06) | 1,738 | 0 | (0) |
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| Total | 258,913 | 603 | (0.23) | 11,133 | 27 | (0.24) |
aInmates with previously positive TST were not retested.
ODRC: Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; PCI: Pickaway Correctional Institution; TST: tuberculin skin test.