Higher Rate of Tuberculosis in Second Generation Migrants Compared to Native Residents in a Metropolitan Setting in Western Europe

• Florian M. Marx ,

  * E-mail: florian.marx@charite.de

  Affiliations Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité –Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America

  ⨯
• Lena Fiebig,

  Affiliation Respiratory Infections Unit, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  ⨯
• Barbara Hauer,

  Affiliation Respiratory Infections Unit, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  ⨯
• Bonita Brodhun,

  Affiliation Respiratory Infections Unit, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  ⨯
• Gisela Glaser-Paschke,

  Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, Public Health Office Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany

  ⨯
• Klaus Magdorf †,

  † Deceased.

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité –Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

  ⨯
• Walter Haas

  Affiliation Respiratory Infections Unit, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  ⨯