Profile of tuberculosis among the foreign-born population in Japan, 2007-2014
The proportion of foreign-born people among the newly notified tuberculosis (TB) patients has been increasing in recent years and potentially poses a new challenge to TB control in Japan. In this report, we analysed the data from the Japan TB surveillance system between 2007 and 2014 to gain an over...
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Main Authors: | Lisa Kawatsu (Author), Kazuhiro Uchimura (Author), Kiyohiko Izumi (Author), Akihiro Ohkado (Author), Nobukatsu Ishikawa (Author) |
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World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific,
2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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