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Volume 26, Number 3—March 2020
Research

US Tuberculosis Rates among Persons Born Outside the United States Compared with Rates in Their Countries of Birth, 2012–20161

Clarisse A. TsangComments to Author , Adam J. Langer, J. Steve Kammerer, and Thomas R. Navin
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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TB rates (per 100,000 population) in the United States, by country of birth and time from US arrival to TB diagnosis, 2012–2016. A) Persons born abroad by their country of birth (note that rates could not be calculated for 1 country); B) persons by their country of birth who lived in the United States <1 year before diagnosis; C) persons by their country of birth who lived in the United States >1 to <10 years before diagnosis; D) persons by their country of birth who lived in the United

Figure 2. TB rates (per 100,000 population) in the United States, by country of birth and time from US arrival to TB diagnosis, 2012–2016. A) Persons born abroad by their country of birth (note that rates could not be calculated for 1 country); B) persons by their country of birth who lived in the United States <1 year before diagnosis; C) persons by their country of birth who lived in the United States >1 to <10 years before diagnosis; D) persons by their country of birth who lived in the United States >10 years before diagnosis. Note that the US Census Bureau American Community Survey provides only a combined population estimate for Korea; thus, the rate represented for North Korea and South Korea is calculated as a combined rate for Korea. TB, tuberculosis.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the Union–North America Region conference, 2019 Feb 21–23, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and at the National TB Conference, 2019 Apr 23–26, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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