Using country of origin to inform targeted tuberculosis screening in asylum seekers: a modelling study of screening data in a German federal state, 2002–2015

BACKGROUND: Screening programmes for tuberculosis (TB) among immigrants rarely consider the heterogeneity of risk related to migrants’ country of origin. We assess the performance of a large screening programme in asylum seekers by analysing (i) the difference in yield and numbers needed to screen (...

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Autores principales: Bozorgmehr, Kayvan, Preussler, Stella, Wagner, Ulrich, Joggerst, Brigitte, Szecsenyi, Joachim, Razum, Oliver, Stock, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6448304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30943917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6448304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30943917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x

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