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Comment
. 2023 Nov 2;62(5):2301230.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.01230-2023. Print 2023 Nov.

Tuberculosis screening in migrants to the EU/EEA and UK

Niklas Köhler  1   2   3 , Anca Vasiliu  4 , Anna Maria Mandalakas  1   2   4 , Leonardo Martinez  5 , Christoph Lange  6   2   3   4 ; TBnet
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Tuberculosis screening in migrants to the EU/EEA and UK

Niklas Köhler et al. Eur Respir J. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: C. Lange is supported by the German Center of Infection Research (DZIF); in addition, C. Lange has provided consultation to Insmed, a company that produced liposomal amikacin as an inhalative suspension for the treatment of NTM-PD, received speaker honoraria from Insmed, Gilead, Janssen and GSK, and is a member of the data safety board for trials of Medicines sans Frontiers, outside the submitted work. The other authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

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