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Tuberculosis Incidence in Immigrants and Refugees
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    Mar 17 2015
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    Ann Intern Med. 162(6):420-428.
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    BackgroundBefore 2007, U.S.-bound immigrants and refugees were screened for tuberculosis (TB) by a smear-based algorithm that could not diagnose smear-negative and culture-positive TB. In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began to ...
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  2. Estimating the Impact of Newly Arrived Foreign-Born Persons on Tuberculosis in the United States
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    Liu, Yecai; Painter, John A.; Posey, Drew L.; Cain, Kevin P.; Weinberg, Michelle S.; Maloney, Susan A.; Ortega, Luis S.; Cetron, Martin S.;
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    PLoS One. 2012; 7(2).
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    BackgroundAmong approximately 163.5 million foreign-born persons admitted to the United States annually, only 500,000 immigrants and refugees are required to undergo overseas tuberculosis (TB) screening. It is unclear what extent of the unscreened no...
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  4. Implementation of New TB Screening Requirements for U.S.-Bound Immigrants and Refugees — 2007–2014
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    Posey, Drew L.; Naughton, Mary P.; Willacy, Erika A.; Russell, Michelle; Olson, Christine K.; Godwin, Courtney M.; McSpadden, Pamela S.; White, Zachary A.; Comans, Terry W.; Ortega, Luis S.; Guterbock, Michael; Weinberg, Michelle S.; Cetron, Martin S.;
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    Mar 21 2014
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    MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014; 63(11):234-236.
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    For more than two decades, as the number of tuberculosis (TB) cases overall in the United States has declined, the proportion of cases among foreign-born persons has increased. In 2013, the percentage of TB cases among those born outside the country ...
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  5. Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Immigrant and Refugee Children arriving in the United States—2010
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    Taylor, Eboni M.; Painter, John; Posey, Drew L.; Zhou, Weigong; Shetty, Sharmila;
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    Oct 2016
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    J Immigr Minor Health. 18(5):966-970.
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    BackgroundImmigrants and refugees 2–14 years of age entering the United States from countries with estimated tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate ≥20 per 100,000 population are screened for TB. Children with TB disease are treated before US arrival. ...
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