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Minnesota refugees diagnosed with tuberculosis disease, January 1993–August 2019

BACKGROUND: Refugees are screened for TB overseas using Technical Instructions (TIs) issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and after arrival during their refugee health assessment (RHA). We examined RHA results and TB outcomes of refugees to Minnesota. METHODS: Demographic an...

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Autores principales: Urban, Kailey, Mamo, Blain, Thai, Dzung, Earnest, Alicia, Jentes, Emily
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35397578
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07327-0
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author Urban, Kailey
Mamo, Blain
Thai, Dzung
Earnest, Alicia
Jentes, Emily
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description BACKGROUND: Refugees are screened for TB overseas using Technical Instructions (TIs) issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and after arrival during their refugee health assessment (RHA). We examined RHA results and TB outcomes of refugees to Minnesota. METHODS: Demographic and RHA results for 70,290 refugee arrivals to Minnesota from January 1993 to August 2019 were matched to 3595 non-U.S. born individuals diagnosed with TB disease during that time. RESULTS: Seven hundred fifty-nine (1.1%) were diagnosed with TB disease. Fifty-four percent were diagnosed within 2 years of U.S. arrival. Refugees screened using TIs implemented in 1991 were twice as likely to be diagnosed with TB disease within 1 year of arrival, compared to those evaluated using improved TIs implemented in 2007. CONCLUSION: Few refugees were diagnosed with TB disease during the period examined. Enhancements to overseas protocols significantly reduced the proportion of refugees diagnosed within 1 year of arrival.
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spelling pubmed-89943302022-04-10 Minnesota refugees diagnosed with tuberculosis disease, January 1993–August 2019 Urban, Kailey Mamo, Blain Thai, Dzung Earnest, Alicia Jentes, Emily BMC Infect Dis Research Article BACKGROUND: Refugees are screened for TB overseas using Technical Instructions (TIs) issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and after arrival during their refugee health assessment (RHA). We examined RHA results and TB outcomes of refugees to Minnesota. METHODS: Demographic and RHA results for 70,290 refugee arrivals to Minnesota from January 1993 to August 2019 were matched to 3595 non-U.S. born individuals diagnosed with TB disease during that time. RESULTS: Seven hundred fifty-nine (1.1%) were diagnosed with TB disease. Fifty-four percent were diagnosed within 2 years of U.S. arrival. Refugees screened using TIs implemented in 1991 were twice as likely to be diagnosed with TB disease within 1 year of arrival, compared to those evaluated using improved TIs implemented in 2007. CONCLUSION: Few refugees were diagnosed with TB disease during the period examined. Enhancements to overseas protocols significantly reduced the proportion of refugees diagnosed within 1 year of arrival. BioMed Central 2022-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8994330/ /pubmed/35397578 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07327-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_fullStr Minnesota refugees diagnosed with tuberculosis disease, January 1993–August 2019
title_full_unstemmed Minnesota refugees diagnosed with tuberculosis disease, January 1993–August 2019
title_short Minnesota refugees diagnosed with tuberculosis disease, January 1993–August 2019
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35397578
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07327-0
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