Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
2014, Pages 234-236

Implementation of new TB screening requirements for U.S.-bound immigrants and refugees — 2007–2014 (Article)

Posey D.L.* , Naughton M.P. , Willacy E.A. , Russell M. , Olson C.K. , Godwin C.M. , McSpadden P.S. , White Z.A. , Comans T.W. , Ortega L.S. , Guterbock M. , Weinberg M.S. , Cetron M.S.
  • a Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • b Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • c Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • d Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • e Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • f Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • g Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • h Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • i Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • j Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • k Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • l Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States
  • m Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, United States

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Index Keywords

refugee Drug Resistance, Microbial public health service mass screening methodology human Refugees statistics Practice Guidelines as Topic interferon gamma release assay Interferon-gamma Release Tests Mycobacterium tuberculosis program development United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) Humans Sputum Adolescent Emigrants and Immigrants preschool child tuberculosis Child, Preschool isolation and purification Article tuberculin test migration legal aspect microbiology antibiotic resistance Emigration and Immigration drug effect practice guideline Child
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ISSN: 01492195
Cited by: 27
Original Language: English