Time series analysis of demographic and temporal trends of tuberculosis in Singapore.

An increasing trend of non-resident TB cases contributing to the overall proportion of TB cases over the years could suggest that mass immigration from high TB incidence countries is increasingly contributing to burden of TB in recent years in Singapore, similar to other low-incidence countries such as the US, Canada and the UK [ 22 ].

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This could be a plausible factor behind a decreasing trend of TB risk among non-residents.

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