Effect of a culture-based screening algorithm on tuberculosis incidence in immigrants and refugees bound for the United States a population-based cross-sectional study

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 420-428

  Liu, Yecai ^a   Posey, Drew L ^a   Cetron, Martin S ^a   Painter, John A ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; SCREENING TEST; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UNITED STATES; MASS SCREENING; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIGRANT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; REFUGEES; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924873829     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-2082     Document Type: Article

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