A Population-Based Cohort Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Strains: An Emerging Public Health Threat in an Immigrant-Receiving Country?

• Deanne Langlois-Klassen ,

  * E-mail: deanne.langlois-klassen@ualberta.ca

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• Dennis Kunimoto,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• L. Duncan Saunders,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• Linda Chui,

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Edmonton, Canada

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• Jody Boffa,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• Dick Menzies,

  Affiliation Respiratory Division, McGill University Health Centre and McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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• Richard Long

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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