Tuberculosis screening yield of asylum seekers in Europe

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 Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
⁵ Dept of TB Control, Regional Public Health Services Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Comment

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

. 2016 Oct;48(4):1255-1256.

doi: 10.1183/13993003.01617-2016.

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 Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
⁵ Dept of TB Control, Regional Public Health Services Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

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Comment on

Low yield of screening asylum seekers from countries with a tuberculosis incidence of <50 per 100 000 population.
de Vries G, van Rest J, Meijer W, Wolters B, van Hest R. de Vries G, et al. Eur Respir J. 2016 Jun;47(6):1870-2. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00099-2016. Epub 2016 Mar 10. Eur Respir J. 2016. PMID: 26965289 No abstract available.
Tuberculosis screening yield of asylum seekers in Europe.
Arrazola de Oñate W, Weber L, Janssens K, Wanlin M, Forier A, Schol S, van Egmond K. Arrazola de Oñate W, et al. Eur Respir J. 2016 Oct;48(4):1253-1254. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00991-2016. Eur Respir J. 2016. PMID: 27694419 No abstract available.