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According to the WHO report, there were about 9.6 million new incident cases and 1.1 million deaths estimated to have occurred in 2014 [1,2].According to a survey conducted with the homeless in 2015, the TB morbidity rate is 2.7% among homeless people [4].Table 1 Demographic findings of enrolled patients Abbreviations: DM=diabetes mellitus; HTN=hypertension; HIV=human immunodeficiency virus; NP=neuropsychiatry; MDR=multi-drug resistance; SBP=systolic blood pressure; HR=heart rate; RR=respiratory rate; BT=body temperature; SpO2=saturation of peripheral oxygen; LOS=length of stay; ED=emergency department.Infectious Diseases Surveillance Yearbook, 2014, 2015 3 Prevention KCfDCa, Annual Report on the Tuberculosis Cases Notified in Korea, 2015, 2016 4 Dasisugi Homeless Health and Welfare Center, Report of Dasisugi Homeless Health and Welfare Center 2016, 2015 5 S. Bamrah, R.S. Yelk Woodruff, K. Powell, S. Ghosh, J.S. Kammerer, M.B. Haddad, Tuberculosis among the homeless, United States, 1994-2010, Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, Vol. 17, Iss. 11, 2013, (1414-9) 6 K. Khan, E. Rea, C. McDermaid, R. Stuart, C. Chambers, J. Wang, Active tuberculosis among homeless persons, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1998-2007, Emerg Infect Dis, Vol. 17, Iss. 3, 2011, 357-365 7 K.J. Park, S.D. Shin, C.B. Park, K.J. Hong, J.H. Shin, K.J. Song, Comparison of clinical characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis between general and homeless patients, J Korean Soc Emerg Med, Vol. 23, Iss. 6, 2012, 847-852 8 H.J. Kim, Current status of tuberculosis in Korea, Korean J Med, Vol. 82, Iss. 3, 2011, 257-262 9 M.B. Haddad, T.W. Wilson, K. Ijaz, S.M. Marks, M. Moore, Tuberculosis and homelessness in the United States, 1994-2003, JAMA, Vol. 293, Iss. 22, 2005, 2762-2766 10 J.T. de Bibiana, C. Rossi, P. Rivest, A. Zwerling, L. Thibert, F. McIntosh, Tuberculosis and homelessness in Montreal: a retrospective cohort study, BMC Public Health, Vol. 11, Iss. 1, 2011, 833 11 K. Lönnroth, B.G. Williams, S. Stadlin, E. Jaramillo, C. Dye, Alcohol use as a risk factor for tuberculosis - a systematic review, BMC Public Health, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, 2008, 289 12 J. Rehm, A.V. Samokhvalov, M.G. Neuman, R. Room, C. Parry, K. Lönnroth, The association between alcohol use, alcohol use disorders and tuberculosis (TB).