High rate of completion of preventive therapy for latent tuberculosis infection among asylum seekers in a Swiss Canton
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Tuberculosis in asylum seekers
seekers Asylum seekers entering the United Kingdom through Heathrow Airport have a high prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis and are more likely to contain drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates than the general UK population. The issue of asylum seekers is universally controversial, with recent reports in the UK suggesting an inward flow of 2 million people in the next 10 years—a f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Swiss Medical Weekly
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1424-7860,1424-3997
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2013.13860