Estimates of incident cases of TB and MDR-TB among newly arrived foreign-born persons in the United States, 2001–2008.*

*Newly arrived foreign-born persons are those who have resided in the United States for up to 1 year after their arrival.†See the Methods Section for details of the estimations.‡The number of person-years is the same as the number of admissions, since immigrants and refugees are assumed to stay in the United States for at least 1 year after their arrival.