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Balancing prevention and screening among international migrants with tuberculosis: Population mobility as the major epidemiological influence in low-incidence nations

  • D.W. MacPherson

      Affiliations

    • Migration Health Consultants Inc., Hartackerstrasse 77/21190 Vienna, Austria
    • Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • B.D. Gushulak

      Affiliations

    • Migration Health Consultants Inc., Hartackerstrasse 77/21190 Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 20 June 2005 ,Revised 4 February 2006 ,Accepted 5 April 2006.

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