Two recent publications from TB-CRE investigators highlight the challenges and opportunities in TB control in migrants in low-incidence TB settings.
The TB-CRE is pleased to highlight:
Estimating Long-term Tuberculosis Reactivation Rates in Australian Migrants, a study of latent TB prevalences in Australian migrant cohorts to quantify rates of TB reactivation after migration.
Article available here.
and
Tuberculosis in migrants – screening, surveillance and ethics, a review which provides a brief overview of the different screening approaches and surveillance processes that are in place in low TB incidence countries.
PDF available here.
Had you include 1987 in your data for "Estimating Long-term Tuberculosis Reactivation Rates in Australian Migrants,", you would have come across details of how a student, adopted from Nepal ten years prior, had a re-action, giving the entire grade 6 class at The Patch Primary School, TB!
I attended Fairfield Hospital once a month for a year for x-rays, and was given medication, three tablets one a day.
I have a few questions about it. As you can imagine......