High rates of tuberculosis in end-stage renal failure: the impact of international migration.

David AJ Moore

; Liz Lightstone; Babak Javid; Jon S Friedland; (2002) High rates of tuberculosis in end-stage renal failure: the impact of international migration. Emerging infectious diseases, 8 (1). pp. 77-78. ISSN 1080-6040 DOI: 10.3201/eid0801.010017

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We studied a cohort of patients requiring renal dialysis who had migrated to the United Kingdom from tuberculosis (TB)-endemic countries and found extremely high rates of TB (1,187 cases per 100,000 per year), partly associated with end-stage diabetic renal disease. We recommend enhanced vigilance and screening of such patients, both to reduce illness and death and to prevent nosocomial spread of TB among susceptible persons.

Item Type	Article
Keywords	Cohort Studies, Cross Infection/prevention & control, Emigration and Immigration, Great Britain/epidemiology, Humans, Incidence, Kidney Failure, Chronic/complications, Mass Screening, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Skin Tests, Tuberculosis/*complications/epidemiology/transmission, Cohort Studies, Cross Infection, prevention & control, Emigration and Immigration, Great Britain, epidemiology, Humans, Incidence, Kidney Failure, Chronic, complications, Mass Screening, Skin Tests, Tuberculosis, complications, epidemiology, transmission
ISI	173411200014