Author's response to reviews Title: A comparative examination of tuberculosis immigration medical screening programs from selected countries with high immigration and low tuberculosis incidence rates Authors:

A comparative examination of tuberculosis immigration medical screening programs from selected countries with high immigration and low tuberculosis incidence rates

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) in migrants is an ongoing challenge in several low TB incidence countries since a large proportion of TB in these countries occurs in migrants from high incidence countries. To meet these challenges, several countries utilize TB screening programs. The programs attempt to identify and treat those with active and/or infectious stages of the disease. In addition, scre...

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...

Author's response to reviews Title: Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in a low-incidence Italian region with high immigration rates: differences between foreign-born and Italy-born TB cases Authors:

Ethical evaluation of immigration screening policy for latent tuberculosis infection

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 325 © 2012 The Authors. ANZJPH © 2012 Public Health Association of Australia After individuals have been exposed to tuberculosis (TB), tubercle bacilli may cause disease or remain quiescent but viable for many decades; this latter state is known as latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). During this phase, individuals are asymptomatic and pose n...

The examination of relationship between socioeconomic factors and number of tuberculosis using quantile regression model for count data in Iran 2010-2011

Background: Poverty and low socioeconomic status are the most important reasons of increasing the global burden of tuberculosis, not only in developing countries but also in developed countries for particular groups. The purpose of this study was to assess the association between socioeconomic factors and the number of tuberculosis patients using quantile regression for count data.   Me...