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6.5-O3Getting migrants animated about latent tuberculosis infection: developing novel educational tools to raise awareness and improve uptake of testing in a national programme in the UK
(2018-05-01)
To improve knowledge about latent Tuberculosis infection (LTBI) amongst recent migrants living in England and to increase the uptake of screening.
Transmission of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae by a fully immunised resident returning from a visit to West Africa, United Kingdom, 2017.
(2018-09)
In early 2017, a United Kingdom (UK)-born person in their 20s presented with a skin ulcer on the foot 3 weeks after returning from Ghana. The patient had last received a diphtheria-containing vaccine in 2013, completing ...
Infectious disease testing of UK-bound refugees: a population-based, cross-sectional study.
(2018-08-28)
BACKGROUND: The UK, like a number of other countries, has a refugee resettlement programme. External factors, such as higher prevalence of infectious diseases in the country of origin and circumstances of travel, are likely ...
The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for latent tuberculosis among migrants in the EU/EEA: a systematic review.
(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.
(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. ...
Investigating a tuberculosis cluster among Filipino health care workers in a low-incidence country.
(2018-03-01)
SETTING: Nearly 8% of adult tuberculosis (TB) cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EW&NI) occur among health care workers (HCWs), the majority of whom are from high TB incidence countries. OBJECTIVES: To determine ...