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TB and COVID-19 in migrants - the need to focus on both conditions.

Margineanu, I; Mor, Z; Garcia, D; Gilpin, C; Dhawan, S; Ritz, N; Zenner, D (2021-05-01)

Engaging with civil society to improve access to LTBI screening for new migrants in England: a qualitative study.

Berrocal-Almanza, LC; Botticello, J; Piotrowski, H; Karnani, N; Kon, O-M; Lalvani, A; Zenner, D (2019-05-01)

<sec id="st1"> <title>SETTING</title> The latent tuberculous infection (LTBI) programme in England, UK, offers testing and treatment to new migrants from high tuberculosis incidence countries. However, the rates of LTBI ...

Latent tuberculous screening of recent migrants attending language classes: a cohort study and cost analysis.

Usdin, M; Dedicoat, M; Gajraj, R; Harrison, P; Kaur, H; Duffield, K; Walker, C-L; Akram, Y; Aiyedun, V; Mohamed, H;... (2017-02-01)

SETTING: England's national tuberculosis (TB) strategy recommends testing for and treatment of latent tuberculous infection (LTBI) among new migrants. Programmatic testing occurs in primary care, which may be inaccessible ...

Prevention and assessment of infectious diseases among children and adult migrants arriving to the European Union/European Economic Association: a protocol for a suite of systematic reviews for public health and health systems.

Pottie, K; Mayhew, AD; Morton, RL; Greenaway, C; Akl, EA; Rahman, P; Zenner, D; Pareek, M; Tugwell, P; Welch, V;... (2017-09-11)

INTRODUCTION: The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is developing evidence-based guidance for voluntary screening, treatment and vaccine prevention of infectious diseases for newly arriving migrants to the ...

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for latent tuberculosis among migrants in the EU/EEA: a systematic review.

Greenaway, C; Pareek, M; Abou Chakra, C-N; Walji, M; Makarenko, I; Alabdulkarim, B; Hogan, C; McConnell, T; Scarfo, B; Christensen, R;... (2018-04)

BackgroundMigrants account for a large and growing proportion of tuberculosis (TB) cases in low-incidence countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) which are primarily due to reactivation of latent ...

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for active tuberculosis among migrants in the EU/EEA: a systematic review.

Greenaway, C; Pareek, M; Abou Chakra, C-N; Walji, M; Makarenko, I; Alabdulkarim, B; Hogan, C; McConnell, T; Scarfo, B; Christensen, R;... (2018-04)

BACKGROUND: The foreign-born population make up an increasing and large proportion of tuberculosis (TB) cases in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) low-incidence countries and challenge TB elimination efforts. ...

Targeting COVID-19 interventions towards migrants in humanitarian settings.

Hargreaves, S; Zenner, D; Wickramage, K; Deal, A; Hayward, SE (Elsevier, 2020-06)

Reply: Tuberculosis screening in migrants to the EU/EEA and UK.

Zenner, D; Cobelens, F; Abubakar, I (2023-11)

Tuberculosis incidence estimates from countries of origin alone are often insufficient to predict TB prevalence among migrants https://bit.ly/3PDc35g