Radiological screening of refugees in Germany

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Herzmann, Christian ^a   Golakov, Manja ^b   Malekzada, Freschta ^b   Lonnroth, Knut ^c,d   Kranzer, Katharina ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^b University of Löbeck   (Germany)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EASTERN EUROPE; ERITREA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMBIA; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; IRAQ; IRAQI; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NIGERIA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOMALIA; SYRIAN; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ETHNIC GROUP; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REFUGEES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85025838452     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02487-2016     Document Type: Letter

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