Screening immigrants for tuberculosis-why not for HBV infection?

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9884, 2013, Pages 2164-2165

  Williams, Roger ^a   Holt, Andrew P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEPATOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; LETTER; MASS SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION;

EID: 84879197540     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61438-5     Document Type: Letter

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