High incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis persists a decade after immigration, The Netherlands.
Incidence rates of pulmonary tuberculosis among immigrants from high incidence countries remain high for at least a decade after immigration into the Netherlands. Possible explanations are reactivation of old infections and infection transmitted after immigration. Control policies should be determined on the basis of the as-yet unknown main causes of the persistent high incidence.
Vos
Annelies M
AM
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. a.vos@erasmusmc.nl
Meima
Abraham
A
Verver
Suzanne
S
Looman
Caspar W N
CW
Bos
Vivian
V
Borgdorff
Martien W
MW
Habbema
J Dik F
JD
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology*