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Epidemiology of tuberculosis in foreign students in Japan, 2015–2019: a comparison with the notification rates in their countries of origin

Tuberculosis (TB) in immigrants is becoming a challenge in eliminating TB in Japan. We investigated the epidemiology of TB in foreign students in Japan in 2015–2019. A total of 2007 foreign students with TB whose median age was 22.5 years (1243 (61.9%) were males) were registered. The notification r...

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Autores principales: Ota, M., Nishimura, T., Uchimura, K., Hirao, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8447047/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001977