Impact of migration on tuberculosis epidemiology and control in the EU/EEA

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  van der Werf, Marieke J ^a   Zellweger, J P ^b  

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

^b TB Competence Center Swiss Lung Association   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; POLAND; ROMANIA; SCREENING; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; MIGRANT; TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85003864839     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.12.30174     Document Type: Editorial

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