Tuberculosis and homelessness in Montreal: A retrospective cohort study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tan De Bibiana, Jason ^a   Rossi, Carmine ^a,b   Rivest, Paul ^c,d   Zwerling, Alice ^a,b   Thibert, Louise ^e   McIntosh, Fiona ^b   Behr, Marcel A ^b   Menzies, Dick ^a,b   Schwartzman, Kevin ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Gouvernement du Quebec   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ODDS RATIO; QUEBEC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80054968467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-833     Document Type: Review

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