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Is there a fundamental flaw in Canada’s post-arrival immigrant surveillance system for tuberculosis?

BACKGROUND: New immigrants to Canada with a history of tuberculosis or evidence of old healed tuberculosis on chest radiograph are referred to public health authorities for medical surveillance. This ostensible public health protection measure identifies a subgroup of patients (referrals) who are at...

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Autores principales: Long, Richard, Asadi, Leyla, Heffernan, Courtney, Barrie, James, Winter, Christopher, Egedahl, Mary Lou, Paulsen, Catherine, Kunimoto, Brenden, Menzies, Dick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30849130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212706