Background: Internationally-adopted children are a unique group of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-vaccinated children with high rates of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in whom serial tuberculin ...

As defined by US immigration law, immigrants are persons lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the US. In 2000 alone 850,000 immigrants were granted legal permanent residence status including ...

OBJECTIVE: Approximately 6000 women deliver annually at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where 2.4% of women has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 60% is foreign-born. We conducted a ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Early March, about 230 faculty members and students at Discovery High School were tested for tuberculosis after it had been determined that one student at the facility had been ...