Country differences and determinants of yield in programmatic migrant TB screening in four European countries

The WHO End TB Strategy emphasises early diagnosis and screening of TB in high-risk groups, including migrants. We analysed TB yield data from four large migrant TB screening programmes to inform TB policy. We pooled routinely collected individual TB screening episode data from Italy, the Netherland...

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Veröffentlicht in:The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease Jg. 26; H. 10; S. 942
Hauptverfasser: Menezes, D, Zenner, D, Aldridge, R, Anderson, S R, de Vries, G, Erkens, C, Marchese, V, Matteeli, A, Muzyamba, M, Nederby-Öhd, J, van Rest, J, Spruijt, I, Were, J, Lönnroth, K, Abubakar, I, Cobelens, F
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: France 01.10.2022
Schlagworte:
Europe - epidemiology
Humans
Mass Screening - methods
Refugees
Transients and Migrants
Tuberculosis - epidemiology
Young Adult
Europe
ISSN:1815-7920, 1815-7920
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Zusammenfassung:The WHO End TB Strategy emphasises early diagnosis and screening of TB in high-risk groups, including migrants. We analysed TB yield data from four large migrant TB screening programmes to inform TB policy. We pooled routinely collected individual TB screening episode data from Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom under the European Union Commission E-DETECT.TB grant, described characteristics of the screened population, and analysed TB case yield. We collected data on 2,302,260 screening episodes among 2,107,016 migrants, mostly young adults aged 18-44 years (77.8%) from Asia (78%) and Africa (18%). There were 1,658 TB cases detected through screening, with substantial yield variation (per 100,000): 201.1 for Sweden (95% confidence intervals CI 111.4-362.7 , 68.9 (95% CI 65.4-72.7) for the United Kingdom, 83.2 (95% CI 73.3-94.4) for the Netherlands and 653.6 (95% CI 445.4-958.2) in Italy. Most TB cases were notified among migrants from Asia ( = 1,206, 75/100,000) or Africa ( = 370, 76.4/100,000), and among asylum seekers ( = 174, 131.5/100,000), migrants to the Netherlands ( = 101, 61.9/100,000) and settlement visa migrants to the United Kingdom ( = 590, 120.3/100,000). We found considerable variations in yield across programmes, types of migrants and country of origin. These variations may be partly explained by differences in migration patterns and programmatic characteristics.
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ISSN:1815-7920
1815-7920
DOI:10.5588/ijtld.22.0186