ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2011
Active tuberculosis among homeless persons, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1998-2007.
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- Strategies to improve vaccination rates in people who are homeless: A systematic review.Vaccine · 2022Pooled it
- Patient support for tuberculosis patients in low-incidence countries: A systematic review.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- Infectious Diseases Among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review of the Literature in the United States and Canada, 2003-2022.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Pooled it
- Four COVID-19 screening strategies for early case identification within the homeless shelter population: a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Trial
- The American Association of Tissue Banks tissue donor screening for Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Recommended criteria and literature review.Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society · 2024Review
- Dimensions of poverty as risk factors for antimicrobial resistant organisms in Canada: a structured narrative review.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2022Review
- All together now: aggregating multiple records to develop a person-based dataset to integrate and enhance infectious disease surveillance in Ontario, Canada.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2020Article
- Communicable disease among people experiencing homelessness in California.Epidemiology and infection · 2020Article
- Prevalence of latent tuberculosis in homeless persons: A single-centre cross-sectional study, Germany.PloS one · 2019Article
- Outbreak of tuberculosis among substance users and homeless people in Greater Montréal, Canada, 2003-2016.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2017Article
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- Application of whole genome sequence analysis to the study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Nunavut, Canada.PloS one · 2017Article
- Smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis and associated factors among homeless individuals in Dessie and Debre Birhan towns, Northeast Ethiopia.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2016Article
- The Sociospatial Network: Risk and the Role of Place in the Transmission of Infectious Diseases.PloS one · 2016Article
- Preliminary evaluation of exome sequencing to identify genetic markers of susceptibility to tuberculosis disease.BMC research notes · 2015Article
- A clonal outbreak of tuberculosis in a homeless population in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, 2008-2015.Epidemiology and infection · 2015Article
- Health research among hard-to-reach people: six degrees of sampling.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2015Review
- Marked microevolution of a unique Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain in 17 years of ongoing transmission in a high risk population.PloS one · 2014Article
- Active pulmonary tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection among homeless people in Seoul, South Korea: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2013Article
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Abstract
While tuberculosis (TB) in Canadian cities is increasingly affecting foreign-born persons, homeless persons remain at high risk. To assess trends in TB, we studied all homeless persons in Toronto who had a diagnosis of active TB during 1998-2007. We compared Canada-born and foreign-born homeless persons and assessed changes over time. We identified 91 homeless persons with active TB; they typically had highly contagious, advanced disease, and 19% died within 12 months of diagnosis. The proportion of homeless persons who were foreign-born increased from 24% in 1998-2002 to 39% in 2003-2007. Among foreign-born homeless persons with TB, 56% of infections were caused by strains not known to circulate among homeless persons in Toronto. Only 2% of infections were resistant to first-line TB medications. The rise in foreign-born homeless persons with TB strains likely acquired overseas suggests that the risk for drug-resistant strains entering the homeless shelter system may be escalating.
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