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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis Breaches Borders, But Not Public Health
November 5th, 2007
Immigrants from countries with high rates of tuberculosis who move to countries of low TB incidence do not pose a public health threat to native citizens, according to researchers in Norway, who analyzed the incidence and genetic origins of all known cases of TB in the country between 1993 and 2005. Their results were reported in the first issue for November of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. After gathering all available cultures from the identified cases and eliminating samples suspected of being contaminated in the lab, the researchers examined 2,173 cases of TB in the country over 12...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2007-11-05)
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