Screening for Tuberculosis in Migrants: A Survey by the Global Tuberculosis Network

Tuberculosis (TB) does not respect borders, and migration confounds global TB control and elimination. Systematic screening of immigrants from TB high burden settings and-to a lesser degree TB infection (TBI)-is recommended in most countries with a low incidence of TB. The aim of the study was to ev...

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Main Authors: Lia D'Ambrosio (Author), Rosella Centis (Author), Claudia C. Dobler (Author), Simon Tiberi (Author), Alberto Matteelli (Author), Justin Denholm (Author), Dominik Zenner (Author), Seif Al-Abri (Author), Fatma Alyaquobi (Author), Marcos Abdo Arbex (Author), Evgeny Belilovskiy (Author), François-Xavier Blanc (Author), Sergey Borisov (Author), Anna Cristina C. Carvalho (Author), Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya (Author), Nicola Cocco (Author), Luigi Ruffo Codecasa (Author), Margareth Pretti Dalcolmo (Author), Keertan Dheda (Author), Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan (Author), Susanna R. Esposito (Author), José-María (Author), Yang Li (Author), Selene Manga (Author), Valentina Marchese (Author), Marcela Muñoz Torrico (Author), Emanuele Pontali (Author), Adrián Rendon (Author), Denise Rossato Silva (Author), Rupak Singla (Author), Ivan Solovic (Author), Giovanni Sotgiu (Author), Martin van den Boom (Author), Nguyen Viet Nhung (Author), Jean-Pierre Zellweger (Author), Giovanni Battista Migliori (Author)
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Published: MDPI AG, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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