European policies in the management of tuberculosis among migrants

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue , 2017, Pages 85-89

  D'Ambrosio, Lia ^a,b   Centis, Rosella ^a   Dara, Masoud ^a   Solovic, Ivan ^c   Sulis, Giorgia ^d   Zumla, Alimuddin ^e   Migliori, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Public Health Consulting Group SAGL   (Switzerland)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN RU OMBEROK   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Europe Region; LTBI; Refugees; Screening practices; Survey; TB

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MIGRANT; MIGRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REFUGEE; SCREENING TEST; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COINFECTION; ETHNIC GROUP; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

COINFECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REFUGEES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85009814541     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2016.11.002     Document Type: Article

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