Effectiveness and costeffectiveness of screening immigrants schemes for tuberculosis (TB) on arrival from high TB endemic countries to low TB prevalent countries

African Health Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 663-671

  Abdoulie, Sammeh ^a   Mohammed, Alsharif ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; PROGRAM COST EFFECTIVENESS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 84906928917     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v14i3.23     Document Type: Article

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