Tuberculosis
Immigrant screening misses majority of imported latent TB, finds study
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 3rd, 2011
TB is caused by a bacterial infection which is normally asymptomatic, but around one in 10 infections leads to active disease, which attacks the lungs and kills around half of people affected.
Today's research showed that better selection of which immigrants to screen with new blood tests can detect over 90 per cent of imported latent TB. These people can be given a course of antibiotic treatment to prevent them from...
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