Recent Travel and Tuberculosis in Migrants: Data From a Low-Incidence Country

Alvaro Schwalb; Kumvana Kayumba; Rein M G J Houben; Graham H Bothamley

doi:10.1093/cid/ciad672

Recent Travel and Tuberculosis in Migrants: Data From a Low-Incidence Country

Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Mar 20;78(3):742-745. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad672.

Authors

Alvaro Schwalb^{1

2

3}, Kumvana Kayumba², Rein M G J Houben^{1

2}, Graham H Bothamley^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ TB Modelling Group, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
³ Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
⁴ Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Homerton University Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates among migrants are higher than those in low-incidence countries. We evaluated smear-positive, pulmonary TB notifications of foreign-born individuals, comparing time since arrival and time since last return travel to the country of origin. TB incidence suggests a time course consistent with recent infection during travel.

Keywords: epidemiology; infection; migrant health; travel; tuberculosis.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Incidence
Transients and Migrants*
Travel
Tuberculosis* / epidemiology
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding