CMAJ
Volume 169, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1035-1036

Screening immigrants to Canada for tuberculosis: Chest radiography or tuberculin skin testing? (Note)

Menzies D.*
  • a Department of Medicine, Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Que., Canada, Resp. Epidemiol. and Clin. Res. Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, 3650 St. Urbain St., Montréal, Que. H2X 2P4, Canada

Abstract

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Index Keywords

immigrant Human immunodeficiency virus infection mass screening False Positive Reactions human corticosteroid Skin Tests diabetes mellitus health service Mycobacterium tuberculosis Note health care cost Humans lung tuberculosis diagnostic value Canada tuberculosis population research Incidence infection prevention tuberculin test adult infection risk kidney failure isoniazid thorax radiography Emigration and Immigration cost-benefit analysis cost effectiveness analysis
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ISSN: 08203946
Cited by: 29
Original Language: English