High Incidence of Active Tuberculosis in Asylum Seekers from Eritrea and Somalia in the First 5 Years after Arrival in the Netherlands

High Incidence of Active Tuberculosis in Asylum Seekers from Eritrea and Somalia in the First 5 Years after Arrival in the Netherlands

Three quarters of tuberculosis (TB) patients in the Netherlands are foreign-born; 26% are from Eritrea or Somalia. We analyzed TB incidence rates in asylum seekers from Eritrea and Somalia in the first 5 years after arrival in the Netherlands (2013–2017) and performed survival analysis with Cox prop...

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Main Authors: Jossy van den Boogaard, Erika Slump, Henrieke J. Schimmel, Wim van der Hoek, Susan van den Hof, Gerard de Vries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
tuberculosis and other mycobacteria
TB
incidence
asylum seekers
Eritrea
Somalia
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/4/19-0123_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/4/19-0123_article

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