Tuberculosis screening of asylum seekers in Finland, 2015–2016

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Table 1 Characteristics of asylum seekers, TB cases among asylum seekers, TB cases diagnosed based on screening and yield of TB cases diagnosed based on screening, 2015–2016, Finland

		All asylum seekers; n (%),	All TB cases among asylum seekers; n (%),	TB cases diagnosed based on screening; n (%)	Yield of TB cases diagnosed based on screening; (%)
		n = 38,134	n = 96	n = 48	0.19 (48/25048)
Men^a		30,122 (79)	71 (74)	40 (83)
Age group^b	0–13	5669 (15)	3 (3)	1 (2)
	14–17	3740 (10)	13 (13.5)	9 (19)
	18–34	22,397 (59)	65 (68)	27 (56)
	35–64	6024 (16)	13 (13.5)	11 (23)
	65 or above	114 (0.3)	2 (2)	0
Origin^c	Iraq	21,731 (57)	11 (11)	6 (12.5)	0.028^e
	Afghanistan^d	5968 (16)	17 (18)	13 (27)	0.22^e
	Somalia^d	2413 (6)	49 (51)	20 (42)	0.83^e
	Syria	1479 (4)	2 (2)	0	0
	Other	6493 (17)	17 (18)	9 (19)	NA
Pulmonary TB			71 (74)	44 (91.7)
MDR-TB			8 (8.3)	4 (8.3)

^a For 53 (0.1%) asylum seekers, information on sex was missing
^b For all asylum seekers, age at the time of immigration; for TB cases age at the time of diagnosis. Of all the asylum seekers, 190 (0,5%) had unknown age
^c Origin is based on country of birth, and if not available, on nationality. Of all the asylum seekers, 50 (0,1%) had unknown origin
^d Incidence rate > 50/100000 population in 2015–2016
^e Aggregated data were used as denominator to calculate the yield by country of origin

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