Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2011)

Tuberculosis among Foreign-born Persons, Singapore, 2000–2009

  • Khin Mar Kyi Win,
  • Cynthia B.E. Chee,
  • Liang Shen,
  • Yee T. Wang,
  • Jeffery Cutter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1703.101615
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 3
pp. 517 – 519

Abstract

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We determined the proportion of foreign-born persons with tuberculosis (TB) in Singapore. This proportion increased from 25.5% in 2004 to 37.6% in 2009. Unskilled workers from countries with high incidences of TB accounted for the highest number of and greatest increase in foreign-born TB case-patients.

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