Arroyave, Luisa
Keynan, Yoav
Sanchez, Deny
López, Lucelly
Marin, Diana
Posada, Maryluz
Rueda, Zulma Vanessa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6342-1812
Funding for this research was provided by:
Colciencias (121071249878)
Article History
First Online: 4 May 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All authors have no conflict of interest to report.
: This research was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, Universidad de Antioquia, the Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario (INPEC), and the director of each prison.
: Written informed consent was explained and signed in the presence of two witnesses, which under no circumstance were a superior. For those guards with respiratory symptoms at the time of evaluation, a referral for further assessment by a physician to rule out the presence of active TB, was carried out. To date no cases of active TB were identified during the study.