TY - JOUR AU - Win, Khin Mar Kyi AU - Chee, Cynthia B.E. AU - Shen, Liang AU - Wang, Yee T. AU - Cutter, Jeffery T1 - Tuberculosis among Foreign-born Persons, Singapore, 2000–2009 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 3 SP - 517 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Epidemiology KW - tuberculosis KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - bacteria KW - foreign-born persons KW - Singapore KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1703.101615 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/3/10-1615_article ER - End of Reference