Coker, R (2004) Compulsory screening of immigrants for tuberculosis

Compulsory detention of recalcitrant tuberculosis patients in the context of a new tuberculosis control programme in Israel.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the use of compulsory detention in the context of a new national tuberculosis (TB) control programme launched in 1997. METHODS A retrospective review was made of the use of compulsory detention in the management of infectious TB before and after the initiation of a new TB control programme, using data from the central TB registry in the Ministry of Health and the charts o...

Tuberculosis screening in migrants in selected European countries shows wide disparities.

Well-established tuberculosis screening units in Western Europe were selectively sampled. Three screening units in Norway, two in the UK, one in the Netherlands and one in Switzerland were evaluated. The aim of this study was to describe a range of service models used at a number of individual tuberculosis units for the screening of new entrants into Europe. Semi-structured interviews were cond...

Migration, public health and compulsory screening for TB and HIV

Importance of identifying Mycobacterium bovis as a causative agent of human tuberculosis.

REFERENCES 1 Coker R, Bell A, Pitman R, et al. Tuberculosis screening in migrants in selected European countries shows wide disparities. Eur Respir J 2006; 27: 801–807. 2 Story A, Murad S, Verheyen M, et al. Tuberculosis in London – the importance of homelessness, problem drug use and prison. Thorax 2007; 62: 667–671. 3 World Health Organisation. Western Pacific Region. Assessing tuberculosis p...

Cost-effectiveness of the NICE guidelines for screening for latent tuberculosis infection: the QuantiFERON-TB Gold IGRA alone is more cost-effective for immigrants from high burden countries.

NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) guidelines for new entrant tuberculosis (TB) screening recommend chest x ray (CXR) for immigrants from countries with TB incidence >40/10(5), and tuberculin skin test (TST) for people with normal CXR from very high TB prevalence countries. A revised screening policy using first-line QuantiFERON-TB Gold (QFT) in high risk immigrants wa...