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Corporate Authors:
Center for Disease Control ;
Description:
From January 1979 through December 1980, a total of 664 Indochinese refugees were screened for tuberculosis in Monroe County, New York; 307 (46%) had positive 5-tuberculin unit PPD Mantoux tests. When 217 refugees with initially negative tests were retested at 60 days, 94 (43%) had converted from a negative to a positive test. Although none of the converters had evidence of active tuberculosis disease, 90 (96%) were given isoniazid preventive therapy. This conversion phenomenon has continued over time, discounting an effect of local, national, or international policy changes. The conversions do not seem to be a function of antigen, tester, or reader; criteria for testing, retesting, or reading; home country, camp country, or length of time in camp; or history of prior BCG vaccination, tuberculosis, or immunization exposure, current illness, or testing intervals since arrival in the United States and subsequent testing. Further studies to evaluate boosting or anergy are in progress to assess this potential public health problem.
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Communicable Diseases
Diagnosis
Disease Notification
Epidemiology
Ethnology
Etiology
Filariasis
Health Status Indicators
Health Surveys
Immunology
International Cooperation
Loa
Loiasis
Measles
Mortality
Population Surveillance
Refugees
Risk
Time Factors
Travel
Tuberculin Test
Tuberculosis
Communicable Diseases/Epidemiology/United States
Communicable Diseases/Statistics/United States
Disease Notification/United States
Ethnology/Asia, Southeastern
Filariasis/Etiology/Cameroon
Filariasis/Etiology/United States
Health Status Indicators/Canada
Health Status Indicators/United States
Health Surveys/Canada
Health Surveys/United States
International Cooperation/Canada
International Cooperation/United States
Loa/Cameroon
Loiasis/Etiology/Cameroon
Measles/Statistics/United States
Mortality/Statistics/United States
Population Surveillance/Statistics/United States
Refugees/Asia, Southeastern
Risk/Canada
Risk/United States
Tuberculin Test/New York
Tuberculosis/Diagnosis/New York
Tuberculosis/Immunology/New York

Document Type:
Journal Issue ;
Genre:
Statistics ; Statistics ; Statistics ; Statistics ; Statistics ;
Statistics ; Statistics ; Statistics ; Statistics ; Statistics ; Less -
Place as Subject:
United States ; Cameroon ; Asia, Southeastern ; New York ; Canada ;
United States ; Cameroon ; Asia, Southeastern ; New York ; Canada ; Less -
Collection(s):
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:8222eb73bf48808f4f3aeb16e680a6af74c49429ac6352337dc8f347b7dbed98
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