Community-based evaluation of immigrant tuberculosis screening using interferon γ release assays and tuberculin skin testing: observational study and economic analysis

Background UK tuberculosis (TB) notifications are rising due to disease in the immigrant population. National screening guidelines have been revised but cost-effectiveness analyses are hampered by the lack of data on the comparative performance of tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) and interferon γ releas...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Thorax 2013-03, Vol.68 (3), p.230-239
Hauptverfasser:	Pareek, Manish, Bond, Marion, Shorey, Jennifer, Seneviratne, Suranjith, Guy, Margaret, White, Peter, Lalvani, Ajit, Kon, Onn Min
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Asia - ethnology asthma asthma pharmacology atypical mycobacterial infection bacterial infection bronchoscopy clinical epidemiology COPD pharmacology Cost-Benefit Analysis Emigration and Immigration Female Humans Incidence infection control innate immunity interferon γ release assay Interferon-gamma Release Tests - economics Latent tuberculosis Latent Tuberculosis - diagnosis Latent Tuberculosis - economics Latent Tuberculosis - ethnology lymphocyte biology macrophage biology Male Middle Aged migration Multivariate Analysis Mycobacterium neutrophil biology opportunist lung infections pneumonia Prospective Studies Radiography, Thoracic - economics respiratory infection screening tobacco and the lung tuberculin skin test Tuberculin Test - economics tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - economics Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - ethnology United Kingdom - epidemiology viral infection Young Adult
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