Millions of temporary visitors -- tourists, business people, students and obviously most illegals -- get no tuberculosis screening.
The whole blood interferon-gamma assay (QuantiFERON-TB-2G; QFT) has not been fully evaluated as a baseline tuberculosis screening test in Japanese healthcare students commencing clinical contact.
These authors suggested the use of the Xpert assay as routine tuberculosis screening.
Data thus far do not indicate the need for routine tuberculosis screening.
252 559 new entrants to the UK, whose entry was documented by the port health tuberculosis screening processes at Heathrow and Gatwick.
We and others have previously found that GPs rarely provide formal screening for new arrivals: few asked about vaccination status, considered malaria or parasitic infection, or referred for formal tuberculosis screening [ 9].
To describe the uptake and outcomes of a service for tuberculosis screening of asylum seekers.
The films cover such topics as personal hygiene, malaria prevention, cancer detection, tuberculosis screening and the safe use of X-rays.
The majority of nurses (> 80%) had been vaccinated with bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine, but hospitals reported variable tuberculosis screening practices.
I proposed the use of distributed tuberculosis screening clinics in emerging economies, based on low-cost digital X-ray imaging.
At the nation's borders and in its detention centers, where up to 20,000 immigrants are incarcerated at any one time, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has taken a more aggressive approach to tuberculosis screening.
