UK: Immigrant screening misses majority of imported latent TB, finds study

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

Current UK procedures to screen new immigrants for tuberculosis fail to detect more than 70 percent of cases of latent infection, according to a new study.

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