Epidemiology (TB)

TB Has Two Separate Faces in U.S.

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 1st, 1999

Tuberculosis apparently wears two distinct faces in America's big cities - one for foreign-born residents and one for those born within the U.S.

Researchers conducted an epidemiologic study in San Francisco in an effort to determine how various factors contribute to the community epidemiology of tuberculosis in that city.

"We have shown that there are currently two parallel epidemiologic patterns of tuberculosis occurring simultaneously in the city - one in foreign-born population and one in the U.S.-born population," Daniel P. Chin and colleagues wrote ("Differences in Contributing Factors to Tuberculosis Incidence in U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born...

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