An outbreak of syphilis in Alabama prisons: correctional health policy and communicable disease control.

@article{Wolfe2001AnOO,
  title={An outbreak of syphilis in Alabama prisons: correctional health policy and communicable disease control.},
  author={M I Wolfe and F Xu and P Patel and M O'Cain and Julia Ann Schillinger and Michael E. St. Louis and Lyn Finelli},
  journal={American journal of public health},
  year={2001},
  volume={91 8},
  pages={
          1220-5
        }
}
OBJECTIVES After syphilis outbreaks were reported at 3 Alabama State men's prisons in early 1999, we conducted an investigation to evaluate risk factors for syphilis infection and describe patterns of syphilis transmission. METHODS We reviewed medical, patient interview, and prison transfer records and documented sexual networks. Presumptive source cases were identified. Odds of exposure to unscreened jail populations and transfer from other prisons were calculated for case patients at 1… 
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