Tuberculosis transmission between foreign- and native-born populations in the EU/EEA: A systematic review

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1159-1171

  Sandgren, Andreas ^a   Schepisi, Monica Sañé ^b   Sotgiu, Giovanni ^c   Huitric, Emma ^a   Migliori, Giovanni Battista ^d   Manissero, Davide ^a,e   Van Der Werf, Marieke J ^a   Girardi, Enrico ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d IRCCS   (Italy)

^e Otsuka SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPEAN UNION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIGRANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TRANSMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN UNION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84897401116     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00117213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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