86 Latent Tuberculosis in Foreign-Born Children
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Successful Tuberculosis Prevention in Foreign-born Adolescents
The rise of TB cases among foreign-born persons is partly due to the rise in immigrants to the United States,2 especially those from Asian and Latin American countries where TB rates are up to twenty times greater than that of the United States.3 Of the foreign-born TB cases, 44% were Asian or Pacific islanders and 36% were Latino or Hispanics. Mexico alone accounted for 23% of all foreign-born...
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عنوان ژورنال: Paediatrics & Child Health
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1205-7088,1918-1485
DOI: 10.1093/pch/9.suppl_a.45aa