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Overseas Screening for Tuberculosis in U.S.-Bound Immigrants and Refugees

Author(s) -

Yecai Liu,

Michelle Weinberg,

Luis Ortega,

John A. Painter,

Susan A. Maloney

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa0809497

Subject(s) - medicine , immigration , refugee , tuberculosis , foreign born , demography , population , active tuberculosis , pediatrics , environmental health , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology , archaeology , sociology , history

In 2007, a total of 57.8% of the 13,293 new cases of tuberculosis in the United States were diagnosed in foreign-born persons, and the tuberculosis rate among foreign-born persons was 9.8 times as high as that among U.S.-born persons (20.6 vs. 2.1 cases per 100,000 population). Annual arrivals of approximately 400,000 immigrants and 50,000 to 70,000 refugees from overseas are likely to contribute substantially to the tuberculosis burden among foreign-born persons in the United States.

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