Migration and tuberculosis in the UK: Targeting screening for latent infection to those at greatest risk of disease

Thorax

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1172-1174

  Kruijshaar, Michelle E ^a,b   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^a,c   Stagg, Helen R ^a,c   Pedrazzoli, Debora ^a   Lipman, Marc ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FILIPINO; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMALIA; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED KINGDOM;

TUBERCULOSIS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BANGLADESH; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MASS SCREENING; PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84887485552     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203254     Document Type: Article

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