ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2010
Undocumented migrants in Switzerland: geographical origin versus legal status as risk factor for tuberculosis.
Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The impact of migration on tuberculosis in the United States.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2018Review
- Standard Genotyping Overestimates Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among Immigrants in a Low-Incidence Country.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2016Article
- Hispano-Americans in Europe: what do we know about their health status and determinants? A scoping review.BMC public health · 2015Article
- The border of reproductive control: undocumented immigration as a risk factor for unintended pregnancy in Switzerland.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2015Article
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in a country with low tuberculosis incidence: role of immigration and HIV infection.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2012Article
- Tuberculosis in HIV-negative and HIV-infected patients in a low-incidence country: clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes.PloS one · 2012Article
- Health care seeking among detained undocumented migrants: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2011Article
- The legal and ethical aspects of the right to health of migrants in Switzerland.Public health reviewsReview
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Abstract
Undocumented migrants, meaning migrants without a legal residency permit, come to Geneva from countries with high tuberculosis (TB) incidence. We estimate here whether being undocumented is a determinant of TB, independently of origin. Cross-sectional study including undocumented migrants in a TB screening program in 2002; results were compared to 12,904 age and frequency matched participants in a general TB screening program conducted at various workplaces in Geneva, Switzerland from 1992 to 2002. A total of 206 undocumented migrants (36% male, 64% female, mean age 37.8 years (SD 11.8), 82.5% from Latin America) participated in the TB screening program. Compared to legal residents, undocumented migrants had an adjusted OR for TB-related fibrotic signs of 1.7 (95% CI 0.8;3.7). The OR of TB-related fibrotic signs for Latin American (vs. other) origin was 2.7 (95% CI 1.6;4.7) among legal residents and 5.5 (95% CI 2.8;10.8) among undocumented migrants. Chest X-ray screening identified a higher proportion of TB-related fibrotic signs among Latin Americans, independently of their residency status.
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