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- Christina Greenaway, MD MSc⇓,
- Amelia Sandoe, MPH,
- Bilkis Vissandjee, PhD,
- Ian Kitai, MB BCh,
- Doug Gruner, MD,
- Wendy Wobeser, MD MSc,
- Kevin Pottie, MD,
- Erin Ueffing, BHSc MHSc,
- Dick Menzies, MD MSc,
- Kevin Schwartzman, MD MPH
- for the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health
- 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.
- 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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Tuberculosis: evidence review for newly arriving immigrants and refugees
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