Predictive value of the tuberculin skin test among newly arriving immigrants.

Predictive value of the tuberculin skin test among newly arriving immigrants.

RATIONALE: Screening and treating newly arriving immigrants for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in low-incidence countries could be promising to reduce the tuberculosis incidence among this population. The effectiveness of screening with the tuberculin skin test (TST) is unknown. OBJECTIVES: To...

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Main Authors: Christiaan Mulder, Brigit Mulleners, Martien W Borgdorff, Frank van Leth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3609741?pdf=render

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