Estimating the impact of newly arrived foreign-born persons on tuberculosis in the united states

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Yecai ^a   Painter, John A ^a   Posey, Drew L ^a   Cain, Kevin P ^a   Weinberg, Michelle S ^a   Maloney, Susan A ^b   Ortega, Luis S ^a   Cetron, Martin S ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FOREIGN STUDENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOGEN LOAD; POPULATION RESEARCH; REFUGEE; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TREND STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; WORKER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION CONTROL; MIGRATION; TIME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84863263058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032158     Document Type: Article

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