European Respiratory Journal
Volume 47, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1345-1347

Call for urgent actions to ensure access to early diagnosis and care of tuberculosis among refugees (Editorial) (Open Access)

Dara M. , Solovic I. , Sotgiu G. , D'ambrosio L. , Centis R. , Goletti D. , Duarte R. , Aliberti S. , De Benedictis F.M. , Bothamley G. , Schaberg T. , Abubakar I. , Ward B. , Teixeira V. , Gratziou C. , Migliori G.B.*
  • a World Health Organization Office at the European Union, Brussels, Belgium
  • b National Institute for TB, Lung Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University Ruzomberok, Vysne Hagy, Ruzomberok, Slovakia
  • c Medical Education and Professional Development Unit Research, Dept of Biomedical Sciences Research, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
  • d WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri IRCCS, Via Roncaccio 16, Tradate, 21049, Italy, Public Health Consulting Group, Lugano, Switzerland
  • e WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri IRCCS, Via Roncaccio 16, Tradate, 21049, Italy
  • f National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Rome, Italy
  • g EPI Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • h UO Clinica Pneumologica, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan-Bicocca, AO San Gerardo, Monza, Italy
  • i Section Marche, Paediatric Italian Society, Ancona, Italy
  • j Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
  • k Deaconess Hospital Rotenburg, Dept of Pneumology, Rotenburg Wümme, Germany
  • l UCL and Tuberculosis Section, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
  • m European Respiratory Society, EU Affairs Dept, Brussels, Belgium
  • n European Respiratory Society, EU Affairs Dept, Brussels, Belgium
  • o University Respiratory Medicine Unit, Evgenidio Hospital, Athens, Greece
  • p WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri IRCCS, Via Roncaccio 16, Tradate, 21049, Italy

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Index Keywords

refugee Europe human risk assessment Refugees medical society health service Mycobacterium tuberculosis priority journal organization Tuberculosis Societies Humans Editorial latent tuberculosis tuberculosis risk factor patient assessment infection prevention emergency care infection risk Lung Diseases lung disease Organizations disease association early diagnosis
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84969811625&doi=10.1183%2f13993003.00377-2016&partnerID=40&md5=b84d45428d550ffe72f7dd25a21b21df
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00377-2016
ISSN: 09031936
Cited by: 20
Original Language: English