Surveillance of tuberculosis and treatment outcomes following screening and therapy interventions among marriage-migrants and labor-migrants from high TB endemic countries in Taiwan

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Data Collection

Definition of migrants with TB

Statistics and analysis

Ethics statement

Results

TB incidence trends among migrants and TB screening impact

Comparison of TB screening impact on clinical characteristics among TB cases

Anti-TB treatment outcomes: post- vs. pre-implementation of the friendly therapy policy

Discussion

Limitations

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Summary of raw data.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10332/supp-1

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The author declares that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Mei-Mei Kuan conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Taiwanese CDC (No. TwCDCIRB106115).

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data summary is available as a Supplemental File.

The raw data used in this study were acquired from the TCDC TB registry system which cannot be shared due to the individual information privacy protection policy. Interested readers can apply for access to the data resources: details of individual TB cases including “area, age, and gender”.

Interested readers can access the TCDC Epidemic Intelligence Center data resources by contacting gnnhuo@cdc.gov.tw to obtain access to the data presented here: https://data.cdc.gov.tw/en/dataset/aagstable-tuberculosis (and graphed here: https://nidss.cdc.gov.tw/en/nndss/Diagram?id=010).

Funding

The publication fee would be paid by Taiwan CDC. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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