Paediatric tuberculosis among the foreign-born: utility of the Canadian TB immigration medical surveillance programme
Abdool S. Yasseen, E Rea, M Mustafa Hirji, C. Yang, Gonzalo G. Alvarez, Kamran Khan, Ian Kitai
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2019-01
Abstract
The current Canadian system detects little TB disease, and reveals very different rates of pre-immigration paediatric TB diagnosis in different high TB burden countries. These data provide a basis for improving TB screening strategies for immigrants to low TB burden countries.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Immigration
- Tuberculosis
- Pediatrics
- Public health
- Cohort
- Retrospective cohort study
- Population
- Hazard ratio
- Disease
- Cohort study
- Disease burden
- Demography
- Environmental health