Table 4– Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among foreign and locally born contacts in high-income countries#.
Country of origin | Included studies | Contacts with LTBI | Contacts screened | Proportion % | 95% CI | τ2 | I2 | OR (95% CI) | p-value |
Contacts born locally | 6 | 1536 | 7576 | 17.0 | 11–8–24.0 | 0.28 | 98.5 | 1.0 | |
Contacts born overseas | 6 | 1849 | 4298 | 39.2 | 30.0–49.3 | 0.24 | 97.9 | 3.39 (3.10–3.71) | <0.0001 |