Abrupt decline in tuberculosis among foreign-born persons in the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Baker, Brian J ^a   Winston, Carla A ^a   Liu, Yecai ^a   France, Anne Marie ^a   Cain, Kevin P ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MEXICO; PHILIPPINES; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MASS SCREENING; MIGRANT; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; TRENDS;

ASIA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEXICO; MORBIDITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959440327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147353     Document Type: Article

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