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| Title: | Tuberculosis among foreign-born persons, Singapore, 2000-2009 | Authors: | Win K.M.K. Chee C.B.E. Shen L. Wang Y.T. Cutter J. |
Keywords: | adult age distribution article ethnic difference female foreign student foreign worker geographic distribution human immigrant incidence indigenous people major clinical study male prevalence sex difference Singapore trend study tuberculosis Adolescent Adult Child Child, Preschool Emigrants and Immigrants Female Humans Incidence Infant Infant, Newborn Male Middle Aged Mycobacterium tuberculosis Population Surveillance Singapore Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Young Adult |
Issue Date: | 2011 | Citation: | Win K.M.K., Chee C.B.E., Shen L., Wang Y.T., Cutter J. (2011). Tuberculosis among foreign-born persons, Singapore, 2000-2009. Emerging Infectious Diseases 17 (3) : 517-519. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1703.101615 | Abstract: | 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 foreignborn TB case-patients. | Source Title: | Emerging Infectious Diseases | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/175336 | ISSN: | 1080-6040 | DOI: | 10.3201/eid1703.101615 |
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