Pre-immigration screening for pulmonary tuberculosis

Pre-immigration screening for pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Pre-immigration screening for pulmonary tuberculosis: the unanswered questions.

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Pre-immigration screening process and pulmonary tuberculosis among Ethiopian migrants in Israel.

More than 75,000 displaced Ethiopians have moved to Israel. Tuberculosis (TB) incidence in Ethiopia is 44 times higher than in Israel (344 versus 8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively). The aims of the present retrospective cohort study were to evaluate the pre-immigration screening process initiated in 2001 on pulmonary TB (PTB) morbidity and to assess its cost-effectiveness. Ethiopian...

Screening for Tuberculosis and the Immigration Control

Pediatric tuberculosis immigration screening in high-immigration, low-incidence countries.

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) screening in migrant children, including immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, is an ongoing challenge in low TB incidence countries. Many children from high TB incidence countries harbor latent TB infection (LTBI), and some have active TB disease at the point of immigration into host nations. Young children who harbor LTBI have a high risk of progression to TB d...