Study helps identify which populations of foreign-born persons living in US at higher risk of TB

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

The relative yield of finding and treating latent tuberculosis is particularly high among higher-risk groups of foreign-born persons living in the U.S., such as individuals from most countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, according to a study in the July 23/30 issue of JAMA.

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