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Risk Factors for Tuberculosis
- Child younger than 5 years of age
- Drinking unpasteurized milk if the cow is infected with
- bovine tuberculosis
- Homeless individuals or those from a lower socioeconomic
- group, minority group, or refugee group
- Individuals in constant, frequent contact with an untreated
- or undiagnosed individual
- Individuals living in crowded areas, such as long-term care
- facilities, prisons, and mental health facilities
- Older client
- Individuals with malnutrition, infection, immune dysfunction or human immunodeficiency virus infection, or immunosuppressed as a result of medication therapy Individual who abuses alcohol or is an intravenous drug user
