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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 16.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2015 Mar 17;162(6):420–428. doi: 10.7326/M14-2082

Figure 3.

Figure 3

TB cases diagnosed overseas among 1,561,460 U.S.-bound immigrants and refugees who were screened by the culture-based algorithm, 2007–2012

Definitions: TB = Tuberculosis.

* 14 cases of TB diagnosed in 2007: 2 (14.3%) cases of smear-positive/culture-positive TB, 1 (7.1%) cases of smear-positive/culture-negative TB, 4 (28.6%) cases of smear-negative/culture-positive TB, and 7 (50.0%) cases of clinically diagnosed TB.