The prevalence of tuberculosis infection among foreign-born Canadians: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevalence of tuberculosis infection is critical to the design of tuberculosis prevention strategies, yet is unknown in Canada. We estimated the prevalence of tuberculosis infection among Canadian residents born abroad.

Methods

We estimated the prevalence of tuberculosis infection by age and year of migration to Canada for people from each of 168 countries by constructing country-specific and calendar year-specific trends for annual risk of infection using a previously developed model. We combined country-specific prevalence estimates with Canadian Census data from 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021 to estimate the overall prevalence of tuberculosis infection among foreign-born Canadian residents.

Results

The estimated overall prevalence of tuberculosis in

SUBMITTER: Jordan AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10718277 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature