Populations Of Foreign-born Persons Living In US At Higher Risk Of TB Identified

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 19:35 in Health & Medicine

The relative yield of finding and treating latent tuberculosis is particularly high among higher-risk groups of foreign-born persons living in the US, such as individuals from most countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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