Swiss Medical Weekly
Volume 138, Issue 23-24, 2008

Active screening for pulmonary tuberculosis by chest X-ray among immigrants at the Swiss border (Letter)

Silivan A. , Janssens J.-P.*
  • a [Affiliation not available]
  • b Centre Antituberculeux, Hôpital Cantonal, CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland

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Index Keywords

symptomatology immigrant refugee radiography indigenous people Letter human delayed diagnosis statistics Cigarette Smoking health status morbidity Note screening test Humans Mass Chest X-Ray lung tuberculosis Emigrants and Immigrants Tuberculosis, Pulmonary high risk population prevalence disease transmission migration coughing thorax radiography Utilization Review bacterium culture Switzerland cost effectiveness analysis

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ISSN: 14247860
Cited by: 1
Original Language: English