Evaluation of immigrant tuberculosis screening in industrialized countries

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1422-1429

  Pareek, Manish ^a,b   Baussano, Iacopo ^c   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^a   Dye, Christopher ^d   Lalvani, Ajit ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFANT; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; NEWBORN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84865321900     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1809.120128     Document Type: Article

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