The effect of migration within the European Union/European Economic Area on the distribution of tuberculosis, 2007 to 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Hollo, Vahur ^a   Kotila, S M ^a   Kodmon C ^a   Zucs, P ^a   van der Werf, M J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GERMANY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEWBORN; NORWAY; POLAND; ROMANIA; SOCIETY; TUBERCULOSIS; COINFECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MIGRANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85004190357     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.12.30171     Document Type: Article

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