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ReviewBMC medicine2016

The impact of migration on tuberculosis epidemiology and control in high-income countries: a review.

Manish Pareek, Christina Greenaway, Teymur Noori, Jose Munoz, Dominik Zenner

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Review in BMC medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 142 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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142citing papers in PubMed, 10 pooled it
26.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

142 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 317 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for active tuberculosis among migrants in the EU/EEA: a systematic review.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2018
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  9. Yield of active screening for tuberculosis among asylum seekers in Germany: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Manish PareekDepartment of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. mp426@le.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1521-9964
Christina GreenawayDivision of Infectious Diseases and Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Teymur NooriEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden.
Jose MunozBarcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain.
Dominik ZennerCentre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, UK.
Barcelona Institute for Global Health · ESEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · SEJewish General Hospital · CAPublic Health England · GBUniversity of Leicester · GB

Funding

Department of Health PDF-2015-08-102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) causes significant morbidity and mortality in high-income countries with foreign-born individuals bearing a disproportionate burden of the overall TB case burden in these countries. In this review of tuberculosis and migration we discuss the impact of migration on the epidemiology of TB in low burden countries, describe the various screening strategies to address this issue, review the yield and cost-effectiveness of these programs and describe the gaps in knowledge as well as possible future solutions.The reasons for the TB burden in the migrant population are likely to be the reactivation of remotely-acquired latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) following migration from low/intermediate-income high TB burden settings to high-income, low TB burden countries.TB control in high-income countries has historically focused on the early identification and treatment of active TB with accompanying contact-tracing. In the face of the TB case-load in migrant populations, however, there is ongoing discussion about how best to identify TB in migrant populations. In general, countries have generally focused on two methods: identification of active TB (either at/post-arrival or increasingly pre-arrival in countries of origin) and secondly, conditionally supported by WHO guidance, through identifying LTBI in migrants from high TB burden countries. Although health-economic analyses have shown that TB control in high income settings would benefit from providing targeted LTBI screening and treatment to certain migrants from high TB burden countries, implementation issues and barriers such as sub-optimal treatment completion will need to be addressed to ensure program efficacy.

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Developed CountriesCommunicable Disease ControlEmigration and ImmigrationHumansIncomeRisk FactorsTravelTuberculosisTuberculosis, Multidrug-ResistantMigrationReviewScreeningTuberculosis

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PMID27004556
PMCPMC4804514
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