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    Mar 17 2015
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    Ann Intern Med. 162(6):420-428.
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    Background : Before 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 ...
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  2. Persistent High Incidence of Tuberculosis in Immigrants in a Low-Incidence Country
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    Jul 2002
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    Emerg Infect Dis. 8(7):679-684.
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    Sep 05 2012
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    PLoS One. 2012; 7(9).
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  5. Disease surveillance among newly arriving refugees and immigrants--Electronic Disease Notification System, United States, 2009
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    Lee, Deborah.; Philen, Rossanne.; Wang, Zanju.; McSpadden, Pamela.; Posey, Drew L.; Ortega, Luis S.; Weinberg, Michelle S.; Brown, Clive.; Zhou, Weigong.; Painter, John A.;
    Corporate Author:
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.).
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health Branch.
    Published:
    November 15, 2013
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    MMWR. Surveillance summaries : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries ; v. 62, SS-7
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    MMWR. Surveillance summaries : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries
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    Problem/Condition: Approximately 450,000 legal permanent immigrants and 75,000 refugees enter the United States annually after receiving required medical examinations by overseas panel physicians (physicians who follow the CDC medical screening guide...
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