Tuberculosis Prevention and Control

Publications and conference presentations by the Public Health Agency of Canada Tuberculosis Prevention and Control staff

• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001

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2011

• Edelson PJ and Phypers M. TB transmission on public transportation: A review of published studies and recommendations for contact tracing. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2011;9(1):27-31.
• D. Langlois-Klassen, K.M. Wooldrage, J. Manfreda, K. Sutherland, E. Ellis, M. Phypers, B. Gushulak and R. Long. Piecing the puzzle together: foreign-born tuberculosis in an immigrant-receiving country. European Respiratory Journal in Press, March 24, 2011.

2010

• Gallant V, Scholten D, Ellis E. Tuberculosis (TB)-Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Co-infection, Canada, 1997-2008.  14th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, Orlando, Florida, March, 2010.
• Huang L, Wen SW, Ellis E, Gallant V, Frosst G, Coady A, Chen S, Asfaw T, Hackett D.  Tuberculosis (TB) – Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Co-infection among the First Nations Population in Canada, 1997-2006.  14th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, Orlando, Florida, March, 2010.
• Smith JM, Heys J, Ellis E, Hume AM, Garrahan T, McElroy L.  Tuberculosis in Canadian Federal Penitentiaries 1998 to 2008.  14th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, Orlando, Florida, March, 2010.
• Scholten D, Saunders A, Dawson K, Wong T, Ellis E. Air travel by individuals with active tuberculosis: Reporting patterns and epidemiologic characteristics, Canada 2006–2008. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2010;8(2):113-119. 

2009

• Langlois-Klassen D, Wooldrage K, Manfreda J, Ellis E, Phypers M, Gushulak B, Long R.  Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Recently Arrived Immigrants to Canada.  13th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2009.
• Langlois-Klassen D, Wooldrage K, Manfreda J, Ellis E, Phypers M, Gushulak B, Long R.  “Why are Tuberculosis Case Numbers and Rates Unchanging Among Foreign-Born Persons in Canada?”  13th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2009.
• Saunders A, Gallant V, Scholten D, Phypers M, Ellis E.  Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis in Canada, 1997-2006. 13th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2009.
• Scholten, D. On the Ground and in the Air:  The Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Canada. Public Health Agency of Canada Research Forum 2009, Winnipeg, Manitoba, March, 2009.
• Ellis E.  Tuberculosis--Old Disease, New Information.  CHICA-Canada 2009 National Education Conference, St John’s Newfoundland and Labrador, May, 2009.
• Langlois-Klassen D, Wooldrage K, Manfreda J, Ellis E, Phypers M, Gushulak B, Long R.  Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Recently Arrived Immigrants to Canada.  CSEB APHEO Joint Conference 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, May, 2009.
• Saunders A, Gallant V, Scholten D, Phypers M, Ellis E.  Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis in Canada, 1997-2006. Tuberculosis Public Health Poster Session, 2009 International Conference, American Thoracic Society, San Diego, California, May, 2009.
• Menzies D, Cook V, Creaghan J, Ellis E, Elwood K, Grondin D, Oxlade O, Pai M, Scott L.  Risk Management of Tuberculosis Screening of Entrants to Canada:  Evaluation of Yield and Cost Benefit of Alternative Methods. Montreal (Canada):  McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, 2009
• Saunders A, Phypers M.  The Canadian tuberculosis prevention and control strategy: Targeting our efforts. Canadian Public Health Association 2009 Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June, 2009.
  
• Scholten D, Gallant V, Case C, Proulx J-F, Randell E, Rivest P, Stannard C, Yetman M. Tuberculosis – Human Immunodeficiency Virus Co-infection. 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, July, 2009.
• Wang GJ, Phypers M, Ellis E. Demographic, laboratory and clinical characteristics of HIV-positive tuberculosis cases in Canada. Journal of Infection and Public Health. Nov 2009; 2(3):112-199.

2008

• Buff AM, Scholten D, Rivest P, Hannah HT, Marshall J, Wiersma P, Savles RF, Devoe-Payton BE, Marienau KJ, Harrington TA.  Multinational investigation of a traveller with suspected extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.  12th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, San Diego, California, February, 2008.
• Ellis E.  Cutting Canada’s TB Burden in Half by 2015:  What Will it Take?  International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, 12th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, February, 2008.
• Phypers M, Walker H.  Strategies for managing tuberculosis among the foreign-born in Canada:  A systems dynamics approach.  12th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region. San Diego, California., February, 2008.
• Wood K, Scholten D, Ellis E.  Missed Opportunities for Prevention and Early Diagnosis of TB in Immigrants to Canada.  12th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, San Diego, California, February, 2008.
• Ellis E.  Role of the Public Health Agency of Canada in Global TB Control.  Global Lung Health Symposium:  Strategies for Improving Delivery of Lung Health in resource Limited Settings:  What is the Evidence?  Edmonton, Alberta, March, 2008.
• Phypers, M. Epidemiology of TB in Canada Sixth Tuberculosis Conference 2008—Tuberculosis:  It’s a Small World, Edmonton, Alberta, March, 2008.
• Scholten D, Marienau K, Kim C, Neatherlin J, Schembri C, Russell M, Buckley K, Ellis E.  Challenges to Contact Tracing Investigations Following International Airline Travel by Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis.   International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2008.
• Smith JM, Miron M, Tremblay T, Ellis E.  Burden of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among Federal Inmates 1998 to 2005.  6th Tuberculosis Conference 2008—Tuberculosis:  It’s a Small World, Edmonton, Alberta, March, 2008.
• Edelson PJ, Phypers M.  TB transmission on public transportation:  A summary of published studies and recommendations for contact tracing.  TB Public Health Poster Session, 2008 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, Toronto, Ontario, May, 2008.
• Gallant V, Scholten D, Ellis E.  From Data to Action:  Tuberculosis Prevention and Control.  Data Users Conference: Linking the Health Information Chain, Ottawa, Ontario, September, 2008.
• Pai M, Gardam M, Haldane D, Kitai I, Kunimoto D, Long R, Menzies D, Morshed M, Ward H, Wobeser W and members of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee (E. Ellis member).  Updated recommendations on interferon gamma release assays for latent tuberculosis infection.  An Advisory Committee Statement (ACS). Canadian Tuberculosis Committee.  CCDR 2008; 34 (ACS-6), 31 October 2008.
  
• Scholten D, Saunders A. Reporting patterns and clinical characteristics of TB cases with history of air travel. Canada 2006-2007.  39th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Paris, France, October, 2008.
• Ellis E.  Stopping TB in Canada:  Will We Meet the Canadian Target for 2015?  2008 Tuberculosis Conference, Ontario Lung Association, Toronto, Ontario, November, 2008.
• Gallant V, Scholten D, Phypers M, Ellis E.  Tuberculosis (TB)—Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Co-infection, The Canadian Picture:  1997-2006.  2008 Tuberculosis Conference, Ontario Lung Association, Toronto, Ontario, November, 2008.
• The WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance, 2002-2007, (E. Ellis—contributing member of the working group). Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World --Fourth Global Report (WHO/HTM/TB/2008.394).  Geneva, Switzerland:  World Health Organization, 2008.
  
• Tuberculosis and Air Travel:  Guidelines for Prevention and Control, 3rd ed., (E. Ellis, D. Scholten members of guideline working group). Geneva, World Health Organization, 2008 (WHO/HTM/TB/2008.399).
  

2007

• Phypers MD, Ellis E.  Estimates and Reporting of TB-HIV Co-Infection in Canada.  11th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2007.
• Scholten DJ, Gallant V, Smith HM, Ellis E.  Tuberculosis in the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, 2000 to 2004.  11th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2007.
• Long R, Ellis E.  Introducing the sixth edition of the Canadian Tuberculosis Standards. Can Respir J 2007; 14: 327-328 and Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol 2007; 18: 283-284.
  
• Smith JM, Ellis E, Sarkesh S, Bouchard F.  Self-Reported Tuberculosis History at Initial Assessment Among Inmates and Staff of Correctional Services Canada (CSC) 1998-2004. Canadian Public Health Association, Ottawa, Ontario, September, 2007.
  
• Larcombe L, Orr P. (with assistance from E. Ellis and other members of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee).  Housing conditions that serve as risk factors for tuberculosis infection and disease.  An Advisory Committee Statement (ACS).  Canadian Tuberculosis Committee.  CCDR 2007; 33 (ACS-9), 1 October 2007.
  
• Ellis E, Tannenbaum T. Global TB’s Challenge to Immigrant Receiving Countries—The Canadian Experience.  International Immigration Health Working Group, 4th Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, October, 2007.
• Gardam M, Kunimoto D, Long R, Menzies D, Pai M, Stirling R and members of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee (E. Ellis member).  Interferon gamma release assays for latent tuberculosis infection.  An Advisory Committee Statement (ACS).  Canadian Tuberculosis Committee.  CCDR 2007; 33 (ACS-10), 1 November 2007.
  
• Ellis E, Phypers M, Scholten D, Gallant V, Miron M.  Special Report of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee on Tuberculosis and HIV Co-Infection in Canada.  Ottawa (Canada): Public Health Agency of Canada, 2007.
  
• Scholten D, Phypers M, Ellis E. Contributing authors - Tuberculosis. Life and Breath: Respiratory Disease in Canada. Public Health Agency of Canada. 2007.
  
• Ellis E, Phypers M, Scholten D, Gallant V, Miron M.  Special Report of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee on Tuberculosis among Canadian Aboriginal Peoples.  Ottawa (Canada): Public Health Agency of Canada, 2007.

2006

• Phypers M, Harris T, Power C. CNS tuberculosis: A longitudinal analysis of epidemiological and clinical features.  Int. J. Tuberc Lung Disease. 2006;10(1):99-103.
• Ellis E, Smith JM.  Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in Canada and its Federal Correctional Facilities.  Presented to Cook County Jail Cermak Health Services, Chicago, Illinois, February, 2006.
• Scholten DJ, Gallant V, Ellis E.  Forecasting the Future of Tuberculosis in Canada:  Meeting 2015 Global Targets.  10th Annual Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North American Region, Chicago, Illinois, March, 2006.
• Yuan L, Mersereau T, Ellis E, Randell E, Sobol I, Lem M.  Development of evidence based tuberculosis goals for First Nations and Inuit populations in Canada.  Thirteenth International Congress on Circumpolar Health. Novosibirsk, Russia, June, 2006.
• Harris T, Panaro L, Phypers M, Choudhri Y, Archibald CP. HIV testing among Canadian tuberculosis cases from 1997 to 1998. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol, May/June 2006; 17(3):165-168.
  
• Ellis E.  Foreign Born TB in Canada.  Presented at the CDC/ACET Working Group:  Preventing TB in foreign-born persons in the United States—Guidelines for the 21st Century, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2006; at the Ontario Lung Association Conference—The Face of TB, Toronto, Ontario, November 2006.
• Pai M, Ellis E.  International Standards for TB Care.  Ontario Lung Association Conference—The Face of TB, Toronto, Ontario, November 2006.
• Scholten D.  Evolving trends in the epidemiology of tuberculosis in Canada.  Ontario Lung Association Conference - The Face of TB, Toronto, Ontario, November, 2006.

   

2005

• AbdelMalik P, Ellis E, Sheardown C, Lem M.  Geo-spatial analysis of tuberculosis incidence in Canada’s First Nations population:  On- and off-reserve comparisons.  International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease—North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2005.
• Blackwood K, Stirling R, Collette M, Scholten D, Wolfe J, Ellis E.  Utility of a Canadian tuberculosis genotyping reference interactive database (GRID).  International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease—North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2005.
• Phypers M, Ellis E.  Drug resistant tuberculosis among the foreign-born in Canada.  International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease—North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2005.
• Scholten D, Giffin S, Ellis E, Panaro L.  Cleaning the air:  Assessing the risk of tuberculosis from residual air contamination, Canada, 2004.  International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease—North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2005.
• Scott G, Auguste U, Tardif D, Hickey R, Phypers M, Ellis E, Lem M.  Trends in tuberculosis in the Canadian First Nations population.  International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease—North American Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, February, 2005.
• Deeks SL, Clark M, Scheifele DW, Law BJ, Dawar M, Ahmadipour N, Walop W, Ellis CE, King A.  Serious adverse events associated with bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine in Canada.  Pediatric Infectious Disease 2005; 24: 538-541.
• Ellis E, Phypers M, Sauvé L, Sheardown C, Allegakone M. Special Report of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee on Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Among the Foreign-born in Canada.  Ottawa (Canada): Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2005.
• Lem M, Zverev I, Tardif D, Ellis E.  Economic analysis of the implications of BCG discontinuation in the Canadian First Nations population.  Thirty-sixth Union Conference on Lung Health (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease), 2005 October, Paris, France. Int J Tuberc Lung Disease 2005;9(11) Suppl. 1:S296.
  
• Smith JM, Stirling R, Ellis E, Lavigne SA.  Burden of latent tuberculosis infection in Canadian federal penitentiaries 1998 to 2001.  Thirty-six Union Conference on Lung Health (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease), 2005 October, Paris, France.  Int. J. Tuberc Lung Disease 2005;9(11) Suppl. 1:S106.
• Smith JM, Stirling R, Ellis E, Lavigne SA.  Burden of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among Federal Inmates 1998 to 2001.  Canadian Public Health Association, Ottawa, Ontario, September 2005.
  

2004

• Fanning A, Billo N, Tannenbaum T, Phypers M, Little C, Graham B, Mill J. Stop TB-Halte à la Tuberculose -Canada: engaging industrialised nations in the challenge to meet global targets.  Int J Tuberc Lung Disease 2004 January; 8(1):147-150.
• Stirling R, Wolfe J, Blackwood K, Ellis E.  Proposed Canadian genotyping database of TB isolates.  International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease—North American Region, Austin, Texas, February, 2004.
• Scholten D, Giffin S, Ellis E, Panaro L.  Clearing the air:  Assessing the risk of tuberculosis from residual air contamination, Canada, 2004.  EPIET (European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training) Seminar 2004, Minorca, Spain, October, 2004.
• AbdelMalik P, Ellis E, Lem M.  GIS Analysis of Tuberculosis in the Canadian Aboriginal Population.  Presented at the 2004 ESRI International Health GIS (Geographic Info Systems) User Conference, Washington, DC, October, 2004.
• Ellis E.  Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in Correctional Facilities.  The Lung Association’s Tuberculosis Conference 2004:  TB—Everyone’s Business, Toronto, Ontario, November, 2004.
• Langley J. (with assistance from E. Ellis, S. Deeks and Health Canada First Nations and Inuit Health Branch).  Statement on Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) Vaccine.  An Advisory Committee Statement.  National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI).  CCDR 2004; 30 (ACS-5).
• Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World - Third Global Report.  Geneva, Switzerland. (E. Ellis, M. Phypers contributing member of the working group). The WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance, 1999-2002. World Health Organization Stop TB Department, 2004. 

2003

• Phypers M. Tuberculosis among the foreign-born in Canada. CCDR 2003 January 15; 29-02.
• Phypers M. Pediatric tuberculosis in Canada. CCDR 2003 August 15; 29-16:139-142.
• Long R, Houston S, Hershfield E for the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee (E. Ellis member). Recommendations for screening and prevention of tuberculosis in patients with HIV and for screening for HIV in patients with tuberculosis and their contacts. CMAJ 2003 October 14; 169(8):789-791.
• Menzies D.  Commentary.  Screening immigrants to Canada for tuberculosis:  Chest radiography or tuberculin skin testing.  CMAJ November 11, 2003;169(10).
• Menzies D for the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee and its Immigration Subcommittee (E. Ellis member of each).  Chest radiography versus tuberculin skin testing for tuberculosis screening of immigrants to Canada. CMAJ 2003; 169:1035-1036,

2002

• Long R, Houston S, Hershfield ES and members of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee (E. Ellis member). Recommendations for the screening and prevention of tuberculosis in patients with HIV and the screening for HIV in tuberculosis patients and their contacts. CCDR 2002 December15;28-ACS-7.

2001

• Phypers MD, Panaro L, Nault P. Tuberculosis drug resistance in Canada, 1998 to 2000. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol 2001 May/June;12(3).