Socioeconomic disparities and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea: Focus on immigrants and income levels
Risk factors of MDR-TB remain unclear in South Korea, despite being an important public health issue. Findings from this study, which included ≥50,000 patients with TB from South Korea, suggests that immigrants and patients with lower income levels were strong predictors of MDR-TB in a high-income,...
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| author | Han Eol Jeong Sungho Bea Ju Hwan Kim Seung Hun Jang Hyunjin Son Ju-Young Shin |
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| description | Risk factors of MDR-TB remain unclear in South Korea, despite being an important public health issue. Findings from this study, which included ≥50,000 patients with TB from South Korea, suggests that immigrants and patients with lower income levels were strong predictors of MDR-TB in a high-income, high TB incidence country. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-949326cd28724bf2af793802943035e32023-03-16T05:03:25ZengElsevierJournal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection1684-11822023-04-01562424428Socioeconomic disparities and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea: Focus on immigrants and income levelsHan Eol Jeong0Sungho Bea1Ju Hwan Kim2Seung Hun Jang3Hyunjin Son4Ju-Young Shin5School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea; Department of Biohealth Regulatory Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South KoreaSchool of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South KoreaSchool of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea; Department of Biohealth Regulatory Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South KoreaDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, College of Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, South KoreaDepartment of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, South KoreaSchool of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea; Department of Biohealth Regulatory Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea; Department of Clinical Research Design & Evaluation, Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences & Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea; Corresponding author. School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 16419 South Korea.Risk factors of MDR-TB remain unclear in South Korea, despite being an important public health issue. Findings from this study, which included ≥50,000 patients with TB from South Korea, suggests that immigrants and patients with lower income levels were strong predictors of MDR-TB in a high-income, high TB incidence country.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1684118222001438TuberculosisMultidrug-resistant tuberculosisSocioeconomicPredictorsDisparities |
| spellingShingle | Han Eol Jeong Sungho Bea Ju Hwan Kim Seung Hun Jang Hyunjin Son Ju-Young Shin Socioeconomic disparities and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea: Focus on immigrants and income levels Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection Tuberculosis Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis Socioeconomic Predictors Disparities |
| title | Socioeconomic disparities and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea: Focus on immigrants and income levels |
| title_full | Socioeconomic disparities and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea: Focus on immigrants and income levels |
| title_fullStr | Socioeconomic disparities and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea: Focus on immigrants and income levels |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socioeconomic disparities and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea: Focus on immigrants and income levels |
| title_short | Socioeconomic disparities and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea: Focus on immigrants and income levels |
| title_sort | socioeconomic disparities and multidrug resistant tuberculosis in south korea focus on immigrants and income levels |
| topic | Tuberculosis Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis Socioeconomic Predictors Disparities |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1684118222001438 |
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