Solid organ transplant recipients with tuberculosis disease in California, 2010 to 2020.

Using California Tuberculosis (TB) Registry data from 2010-2020, we compared the presentation and outcomes of patients with TB aged >15 years with and without solid organ transplantation (SOT). We matched to the United Network for Organ Sharing registry for 1987-2020 and the estimated time from transplantation to the diagnosis of TB, the incidence of posttransplant TB, and the probability of death and graft failure in SOT recipients with TB, compared to those without TB. From 2010-2020, there were 148 posttransplant TB cases.

Association of Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures with Tuberculosis Incidence in California.

We assessed the association of area-based socio-economic status (SES) measures with tuberculosis (TB) incidence in California. We used TB disease data for 2012-2016 (n = 9901), population estimates, and SES measures to calculate incidence rates, rate ratios, and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) by SES and birth country. SES was measured by census tract and was categorized by quartiles for education, crowding, and the California Healthy Places Index (HPI)and by specific cutoffs for poverty.

Tuberculosis Diagnoses Following Wildfire Smoke Exposure in California.

Wildfires are a significant cause of exposure to ambient air pollution in the United States and other settings. Although indoor air pollution is a known contributor to tuberculosis reactivation and progression, it is unclear whether ambient pollution exposures, including wildfire smoke, similarly increase risk. To determine whether tuberculosis diagnosis was associated with recent exposure to acute outdoor air pollution events, including those caused by wildfire smoke.

Health insurance, healthcare utilization and language use among populations who experience risk for tuberculosis, California 2014-2017.

Background: California tuberculosis (TB) prevention goals include testing more than ten million at-risk Californians and treating two million infected with tuberculosis. Adequate health insurance and robust healthcare utilization are crucial to meeting these goals, but information on these factors for populations that experience risk for TB is limited.

Methods: We used data from the 2014-2017 California Health Interview Survey (n = 82,758), a population-based dual-frame telephone survey to calculate survey proportions and 95% confidence intervals (CI) stratified by country of birth, focusing on persons from countries of birth with the highest number of TB cases in California.

Hospitalizations with TB, California, 2009-2017.

Hospitalization is a costly event that affects more than half of all TB patients in the United States. State-level hospitalization data are crucial in estimating the cost of TB disease and the financial impact of preventing TB. We used California administrative hospital discharge data from 2009 to 2017 to characterize TB hospitalizations in comparison with non-neonatal, non-maternal hospitalizations.