Background: The foreign-born population bears a disproportionate health burden from
tuberculosis, with a rate of active tuberculosis 20 times that of the non-Aboriginal Canadian-born …

Rationale. in low incidence countries. Identifying and treating populations at high risk for
latent tuberculosis infection is an important aspect of TB control programs in low TB incidence …

Results. A total of 1557 articles were identified, 426 full text articles were evaluated and 5
studies describing pre-immigration screening and 10 describing post-arrival surveillance data …

Background: A large proportion of adolescents and adult immigrants from tropical countries
are susceptible to varicella (> 30%) due to the fact that varicella occurs at an older age in …

… Ryder, Amelia Sandoe, Kevin Schwartzman, Jennifer Sears, William Stauffer, Brett D. Thombs,
Patricia Topp, Andrew Toren, Sara Torres, Ahsan Ullah, Sunil Varghese, Bilkis Vissandjee…

Background: The majority of newly arrived immigrants originate from countries where they
may have had access to suboptimal vaccination programs. In most parts of the world national …

Background: Immigrant populations have increased mortality from chronic viral hepatitis
and from hepatocellular carcinoma compared to the Canadian born population. A large …

… Ryder, Amelia Sandoe, Kevin Schwartzman, Jennifer Sears, William Stauffer, Brett D. Thombs,
Patricia Topp, Andrew Toren, Sara Torres, Ahsan Ullah, Sunil Varghese, Bilkis Vissandjee…

… Amelia Sandoe for performing the literature searches and for her clerical support. We would
also like to thank Ayesha Ratnayake, Ricardo Batista and Roo Deinstadt for their editing …

… The book’s blurb says that she was only fleetingly glimpsed, but she was a regular at
Sandoe’s. A friend in the 1930s of John Betjeman, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh, Maurice Bowra, …