Low yield of screening asylum seekers from countries with a tuberculosis incidence of <50 per 100000 population

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1870-1872

  De Vries, Gerard ^a,b   Van Rest, Job ^a   Meijer, Wieneke ^c   Wolters, Bert ^d   Van Hest, Rob ^d,e  

^a KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

^d Municipal Public Health Service Groningen   (Netherlands)

^e Municipal Public Health Services Rotterdam Rijnmond   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASYLUM SEEKER; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TUBERCULOSIS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MASS SCREENING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; REFUGEE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; NETHERLANDS; REFUGEES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84962042890     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00099-2016     Document Type: Letter

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