[HTML][HTML] The health of immigrants and refugees in Canada

M Beiser - Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2005 - Springer
Canada admits between more than 200,000 immigrants every year. National policy
emphasizes rigorous selection to ensure that Canada admits healthy immigrants. However …

Active screening at entry for tuberculosis among new immigrants: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Arshad, L Bavan, K Gajari, SNJ Paget… - European Respiratory …, 2010 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Although there is no evidence that imported tuberculosis increases the incidence of the
disease in host countries, the rise in migration worldwide raises concerns regarding the …

Impact of Immigration on the Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a Low-Incidence Country

UR Dahle, V Eldholm, BA Winje… - American journal of …, 2007 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Programs to prevent the incidence rate of tuberculosis (TB) from increasing in
many low-incidence countries are challenged by international travel and immigration from …

Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis among immigrants in Hamburg, Germany

R Diel, S Rüsch-Gerdes… - Journal of clinical …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
To study the characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) in foreign-born individuals living in
Hamburg, Germany, and to discover in what way foreign-born individuals contribute to the …

[HTML][HTML] Transmission dynamics of pulmonary tuberculosis between autochthonous and immigrant sub-populations

J Barniol, S Niemann, VR Louis, B Brodhun… - BMC infectious …, 2009 - Springer
Background The overall incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Western Europe has been
declining since the 19 th Century. However, immigrant sub-groups from high-prevalence …

Prevalence and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection among newly arrived refugees in San Diego County, January 2010–October 2012

RJ Bennett, S Brodine, J Waalen… - … journal of public …, 2014 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We determined the prevalence and treatment rates of latent tuberculosis
infection (LTBI) in newly arrived refugees in San Diego County, California, and assessed …

[HTML][HTML] Migrants and tuberculosis: analysing epidemiological data with ethnography

J Littleton, J Park, C Thornley, A Anderson… - Australian and New …, 2008 - Elsevier
Objective: Media portrayals of tuberculosis (TB) in New Zealand are of immigrants who enter
the country with active disease and pose a threat to inhabitants, which fosters a popular …

Long-Term Population-Based Genotyping Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolates in the French Departments of the Americas

K Brudey, I Filliol, S Ferdinand, V Guernier… - Journal of Clinical …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
The three French overseas departments of the Americas are characterized both by insular
(Guadeloupe and Martinique) and continental (French Guiana) settings with a tuberculosis …

Persistent high incidence of tuberculosis among immigrants in a low-incidence country: impact of immigrants with early or late latency

H Guo, J Wu - Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering, 2011 - aimsciences.org
Spread of tuberculosis (TB) due to the immigration from some developing countries with
high TB incidence to developed countries poses an increasing challenge in the global TB …

Dynamics of a stochastic tuberculosis model with constant recruitment and varying total population size

Q Liu, D Jiang, N Shi, T Hayat, A Alsaedi - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we develop a mathematical model for a tuberculosis model with constant
recruitment and varying total population size by incorporating stochastic perturbations. By …