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Tuberculosis: evidence review for newly arriving immigrants and refugees

Christina Greenaway, Amelia Sandoe, Bilkis Vissandjee, Ian Kitai, Doug Gruner, Wendy Wobeser, Kevin Pottie, Erin Ueffing, Dick Menzies and Kevin Schwartzman
CMAJ September 06, 2011 183 (12) E939-E951; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090302
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vol. 183 no. 12 E939-E951
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https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090302
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20634392
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  • Published online September 6, 2011.

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  1. Christina Greenaway, MD MSc⇓,
  2. Amelia Sandoe, MPH,
  3. Bilkis Vissandjee, PhD,
  4. Ian Kitai, MB BCh,
  5. Doug Gruner, MD,
  6. Wendy Wobeser, MD MSc,
  7. Kevin Pottie, MD,
  8. Erin Ueffing, BHSc MHSc,
  9. Dick Menzies, MD MSc,
  10. Kevin Schwartzman, MD MPH
  11. for the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health
  1. From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Epidemiology and Community Services Unit (Greenaway, Sandoe), SMBD Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Que.; the Faculty of Nursing (Vissandjee), University of Montreal, Montréal, Que.; the Department of Paediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases (Kitai), Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Family Medicine (Gruner), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases (Wobeser), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; the Institute of Population Health (Pottie, Ueffing), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; and the Montreal Chest Institute (Menzies, Schwartzman), McGill University, Montréal, Que.
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr. Christina Greenaway, SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rm. G-143, 3755 Cote St. Catherine Rd., Montréal QC H3T 1E2; ca.greenaway{at}mcgill.ca
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Christina Greenaway, Amelia Sandoe, Bilkis Vissandjee, Ian Kitai, Doug Gruner, Wendy Wobeser, Kevin Pottie, Erin Ueffing, Dick Menzies, Kevin Schwartzman
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