ArticleYonsei medical journal2017
Social and Clinical Characteristics of Immigrants with Tuberculosis in South Korea.
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- Determinants of the lost to follow-up status among patients with tuberculosis who emigrated to the Republic of Korea: a mixed-method study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A comparison of phenotypic and WGS drug susceptibility testing inJAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2023Article
- Comparison of active tuberculosis case finding strategies for immigrants in South Korea: Epidemiology and cost-effectiveness analysis.PloS one · 2023Article
- Risk of loss to follow-up among tuberculosis patients in South Korea: whom should we focus on?Frontiers in public health · 2023Observational
- Hidden loss to follow-up among tuberculosis patients managed by public-private mix institutions in South Korea.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Experiences of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Treatment for the North Korean Refugees.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2019Article
- Treatment outcomes and factors affecting treatment outcomes of new patients with tuberculosis in Busan, South Korea: a retrospective study of a citywide registry, 2014-2015.BMC infectious diseases · 2018Article
- Army Soldiers' Knowledge of, Attitude Towards, and Preventive Behavior Towards Tuberculosis in Korea.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2018Article
- Comparing Two Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genomes from Chinese Immigrants with Native Genomes Using Mauve Alignments.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeTo determine the social and clinical characteristics of immigrants with tuberculosis (TB) in South Korea. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe registered adult TB patients who were diagnosed and treated in Korea Medical Centers from January 2013 to December 2015 were analyzed retrospectively. A total of 105 immigrants with TB were compared to 932 native Korean TB patients.
resultsAmong these 105 immigrants with TB, 86 (82%) were Korean-Chinese. The rate of drug-susceptible TB were lower in the immigrants group than in the native Korean group [odds ratio (OR): 0.46; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.22-0.96, p=0.035]. Cure rate was higher in the immigrant group than in the native Korean group (OR: 2.03; 95% CI: 1.26-3.28, p=0.003). Treatment completion rate was lower in the immigrant group than in the native Korean group (OR: 0.50; 95% CI: 0.33-0.74, p=0.001). However, treatment success rate showed no significant difference between two groups (p=0.141). Lost to follow up (default) rate was higher in the immigrant group than in the native Korean group after adjusting for age and drug resistance (OR: 3.61; 95% CI: 1.36-9.61, p=0.010). There was no difference between defaulter and non-defaulter in clinical characteristics or types of visa among these immigrants (null p value). However, 43 TB patients with recent immigration were diagnosed as TB even though they had been screened as normal at the time of immigration.
conclusionEndeavor to reduce the default rate of immigrants with TB and reinforce TB screening during the immigration process must be performed for TB infection control in South Korea.
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