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Using country of origin to inform targeted tuberculosis screening in asylum seekers: a modelling study of screening data in a German federal state, 2002-2015

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Screening programmes for tuberculosis (TB) among immigrants rarely consider the heterogeneity of risk related to migrants’ country of origin. We assess the performance of a large screening programme in asylum seekers by analysing (i) the difference in yield and numbers needed to screen (NNS) by coun...

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Main Authors: Bozorgmehr, Kayvan (Author) , Erdmann, Stella (Author) , Wagner, Ulrich (Author) , Joggerst, Brigitte (Author) , Szecsenyi, Joachim (Author) , Razum, Oliver (Author) , Stock, Christian (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 3 April 2019
In: BMC infectious diseases
Year: 2019, Volume: 19
ISSN:1471-2334
DOI:10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x
Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x
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Author Notes:Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Stella Preussler, Ulrich Wagner, Brigitte Joggerst, Joachim Szecsenyi, Oliver Razum and Christian Stock
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Summary:Screening programmes for tuberculosis (TB) among immigrants rarely consider the heterogeneity of risk related to migrants’ country of origin. We assess the performance of a large screening programme in asylum seekers by analysing (i) the difference in yield and numbers needed to screen (NNS) by country and WHO-reported TB burden, (ii) the possible impact of screening thresholds on sensitivity, and (iii) the value of WHO-estimated TB burden to improve the prediction accuracy of screening yield.
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ISSN:1471-2334
DOI:10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x

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