An epidemiological study was done on a group of 181 South-East Asian refugees admitted to the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital with a diagnosis of active tuberculosis. The mycobacteriological profile, the degree of intestinal parasitic infestation as well as the percentage of carriers of the surface antigen of hepatitis B virus (HBs-Ag) were studied in this group of patients. The results show that 10 out of 181 patients, (5,4%) had positive culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis from their sputum. Out of 166 patients in whom stools were examined for the presence of parasitic cysts and eggs, 65 (39,2%) of them were positive. Thirty-two patients out of 167 (19.2%) were carriers of the surface antigen of hepatitis B virus. The authors compare their results with those previously reported for the same type of refugees who have immigrated to other provinces of Canada or to the United States.

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Short Survey refugee Quebec human epidemiology Refugees health status parasitism geographic distribution morbidity Aged ethnology virus hepatitis lung tuberculosis Adolescent male Canada Tuberculosis, Pulmonary heterozygote female tuberculosis Liver Southeast Asia Article adult English Abstract intestine infection Hepatitis, Viral, Human ethnic or racial aspects Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic nervous system Carrier State Asia, Southeastern Middle Age Child