A Workplace Tuberculosis Case Investigation in the Presence of Immigrant Contacts from High Prevalence Countries.

The highest prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) occurs in foreign born immigrants in the United States. Contact investigations at work sites with mostly immigrant workers present multiple practical problems. Recently 402 contacts were investigated at a meat packing plant in rural Texas by the Texas Depa...

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Published in:	Journal of Community Health Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 576 - 581
Main Authors:	Kambali, Shrinivas, Nantsupawat, Nopakoon, Lee, Melanie, Nugent, Kenneth
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jun2015
Subjects:	Myanmar Ethiopia Haiti Iraq Mexico Somalia Sudan Texas Immigrants Industrial hygiene Work environment BCG vaccines Chest X rays Microbial sensitivity tests Sputum Tuberculin test Tuberculosis Disease prevalence Descriptive statistics
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