{"title":"Increase in tuberculosis notification rates among newly arriving male Ukrainian refugees to Norway, 2022 to 2024.","authors":"Karine Nordstrand, Jacob Dag Berild","doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.34.2500633","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The war in Ukraine has caused large population displacements. We report increasing tuberculosis (TB) notification rates among Ukrainian refugees to Norway detected through systematic screening upon arrival and driven by rates among adult males. From 2022 to 2024, there were 73 TB notifications in Ukrainians; incidence among Ukrainian men reached 248 per 100,000 in 2024. In 22 cases, isolated <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> were multidrug-resistant. Adequate TB surveillance and control strategies are important to prevent TB outbreaks, including multidrug-resistant TB, in Europe.</p>","PeriodicalId":12161,"journal":{"name":"Eurosurveillance","volume":"30 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12397723/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Eurosurveillance","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.34.2500633","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"INFECTIOUS DISEASES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The war in Ukraine has caused large population displacements. We report increasing tuberculosis (TB) notification rates among Ukrainian refugees to Norway detected through systematic screening upon arrival and driven by rates among adult males. From 2022 to 2024, there were 73 TB notifications in Ukrainians; incidence among Ukrainian men reached 248 per 100,000 in 2024. In 22 cases, isolated Mycobacterium tuberculosis were multidrug-resistant. Adequate TB surveillance and control strategies are important to prevent TB outbreaks, including multidrug-resistant TB, in Europe.
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Eurosurveillance is a European peer-reviewed journal focusing on the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention, and control of communicable diseases relevant to Europe.It is a weekly online journal, with 50 issues per year published on Thursdays. The journal includes short rapid communications, in-depth research articles, surveillance reports, reviews, and perspective papers. It excels in timely publication of authoritative papers on ongoing outbreaks or other public health events. Under special circumstances when current events need to be urgently communicated to readers for rapid public health action, e-alerts can be released outside of the regular publishing schedule. Additionally, topical compilations and special issues may be provided in PDF format.