Three quarters of tuberculosis TB patients in the Netherlands are foreign born 26 are from Eritrea or Somalia. We analyzed TB incidence rates in asylum seekers from Eritrea and Somalia in the first 5 years after arrival in the Netherlands 2013 2017 and performed survival analysis with Cox proportional hazards regression to analyze the effect of age and sex on the risk for TB. TB incidence remained high 5 years after arrival in asylum seekers from Eritrea 309 cases 100,000 person years and Somalia 81 cases 100,000 person years . ...