Low yield of screening asylum seekers from countries with a tuberculosis incidence of <50 per 100 000 population

Affiliations

¹ KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Den Haag, The Netherlands Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands gerard.devries@kncvtbc.org.
² KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
³ Dept of TB Control, Municipal Public Health Services Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Dept of TB Control, Municipal Public Health Services Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁵ Dept of TB Control, Municipal Public Health Services Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Dept of TB Control, Municipal Public Health Services Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Gerard de Vries et al. Eur Respir J. 2016 Jun.

. 2016 Jun;47(6):1870-2.

doi: 10.1183/13993003.00099-2016. Epub 2016 Mar 10.

¹ KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Den Haag, The Netherlands Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands gerard.devries@kncvtbc.org.
² KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
³ Dept of TB Control, Municipal Public Health Services Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Dept of TB Control, Municipal Public Health Services Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁵ Dept of TB Control, Municipal Public Health Services Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Dept of TB Control, Municipal Public Health Services Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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Tuberculosis screening yield of asylum seekers in Europe.
de Vries G, van Rest J, Meijer W, Schimmel H, Wolters B, van Hest R, Kimerling M. de Vries G, et al. Eur Respir J. 2016 Oct;48(4):1255-1256. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01617-2016. Eur Respir J. 2016. PMID: 27694420 No abstract available.