Editorial: Can the active component U.S. military achieve tuberculosis elimination?

Low-incidence populations are known to pose a special risk of increased transmission and outbreaks because of the erosion of public health infrastructure and loss of expertise that can result in delays in diagnosis and incomplete follow-up...

Tuberculosis trends in the U.S. Armed Forces, active component, 1998-2012

During the last five years of the surveillance period, the most common factor associated with the diagnosis of TB disease during military service was latent infection at time of accession; also, as many as 24 percent of cases of TB were associated with deployment to Iraq or other military exposures...

Using the tuberculosis cohort review to evaluate and improve the U.S. Army's tuberculosis control program

The objective of this evaluation was to use a TB cohort review process to assess indicators of the quality and effectiveness of the TB control program in the U.S. Army...

Incidence of acute respiratory illnesses among enlisted service members during their first year of military service: Did the 2011 resumption of adenovirus vaccination of basic trainees have an effect?

In the 2012 cohort compared to the prior year cohorts, incidence rates of hospitalizations for pneumonia and of outpatient diagnoses of the other two acute respiratory illness types of interest were lower during the first three months but not the next nine months of enlisted service...

Epilepsy in active component service members, 1998-2012

Of the 11,295 incident cases of epilepsy, a majority (85.8%) had no predisposing condition identified in their medical record; the remaining 14.2 percent had at least one possible predisposing condition identified preceding their incident seizure/epilepsy encounter...