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Many UK immigrants have undetected latent TB; IGRA could help

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Many UK immigrants have undetected latent TB; IGRA could help

Jun 16, 2011
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Many UK immigrants have undetected latent TB; IGRA could help

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In a 3-center observational study, Pareek et al report that 20% of new immigrants to the UK (224 of 1229) had latent tuberculosis infection as detected by interferon-gamma release assay. Standing screening policy may miss ~70% of these cases. Lancet Infect Dis 2011;11:435-444.

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