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Yield of active screening for tuberculosis among asylum seekers in Germany: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Prevalence of Tuberculosis among migrants under national screening programs: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Global health research and policy · 2025Pooled it
- Active and latent tuberculosis in refugees and asylum seekers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interventions for reducing TB incidence in countries with low TB incidence: a systematic review of reviews.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2019Pooled it
- National Inpatient Burden, Treatment Patterns, and In-Hospital Mortality of Spinal Tuberculosis in Germany Amid Demographic Change: A Population-Based DRG Study, 2019-2025.Global spine journal · 2026Article
- Use and application of geographical restrictions in systematic reviews with the aim of including studies about Germany: An update of a methodological review.Health information and libraries journal · 2024Review
- Development of prevalence and incidence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in German laboratories from 2016 to 2020.Emerging microbes & infections · 2023Article
- Burden of tuberculosis among vulnerable populations worldwide: an overview of systematic reviews.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2023Review
- Communicable Diseases Prevalence among Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Infectious disease reports · 2023Review
- Estimating and Explaining the Prevalence of Tuberculosis for Asylum Seekers Upon Their Arrival in Germany.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Article
- Disease burden in a large cohort of asylum seekers and refugees in Germany.Journal of global health · 2021Article
- The seedbeds of Tuberculosis: is it time to target congregate settings and workplaces?Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- The diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI): currently available tests, future developments, and perspectives to eliminate tuberculosis (TB).La Medicina del lavoro · 2020Review
- Tuberculosis screening of asylum seekers in Finland, 2015-2016.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Comprehensive infectious disease screening in a cohort of unaccompanied refugee minors in Germany from 2016 to 2017: A cross-sectional study.PLoS medicine · 2020Article
- Tuberculosis screening during the 2015 European refugee crisis.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Migration and tuberculosis in Europe.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2020Article
- Tuberculosis incidence among migrants according to migrant status: a cohort study, Denmark, 1993 to 2015.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2019Article
- Using country of origin to inform targeted tuberculosis screening in asylum seekers: a modelling study of screening data in a German federal state, 2002-2015.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Surveillance on speed: Being aware of infectious diseases in migrants mass accommodations - an easy and flexible toolkit for field application of syndromic surveillance, Germany, 2016 to 2017.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2018Article
- What happens to migrant tuberculosis patients who are transferred out using a web-based system in China?PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
All asylum seekers in Germany undergo upon-entry screening for tuberculosis TB, but comprehensive evidence on the yield is lacking. We compared the national estimates with the international literature in a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting the yield of TB, defined as the fraction of active TB cases detected among asylum seekers screened in Germany upon entry. We searched 11 national and international databases for empirical studies and the internet for grey literature published in English or German without restrictions on publication time. Among 1,253 screened articles, we identified six articles reporting the yield of active TB based on German data, ranging from 0.72 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.45-1.10) to 6.41 (95% CI: 4.19-9.37) per 1,000 asylum seekers. The pooled estimate across all studies was 3.47 (95% CI: 1.78-5.73; I
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