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Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 2007;297:685.

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Tuberculosis (TB) cases in the United States are riding a dangerous seesaw. While reported disease among those born in the United States has plummeted, cases in foreign-born individuals is rising, prompting public health officials to call for updated guidelines to address latent TB infection among individuals from high-risk countries who have lived in the United States for more than 5 years.

"There's a huge disparity," said Kevin Cain, MD, a medical epidemiologist in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. "We're trying to understand why . . . and what we can do to change that."

An increasing proportion of tuberculosis cases in the United States are in foreign-born persons.

CURRENT STRATEGIES INEFFECTIVE

In a new study, Cain and colleagues from the CDC and other institutions examined TB cases among foreign-born persons based on how long these individuals had been living in the United States and on the country from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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