Policy and practice of programmatic management of latent tuberculosis infection in The Netherlands

Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening and preventive treatment is one of the components of the World Health Organization (WHO) End TB strategy, and particularly relevant for low tuberculosis (TB) incidence countries, i.e. less than 100TB cases per million population. The Netherlands is such...

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Main Authors: Gerard de Vries, Rob van Hest, Marleen Bakker, Connie Erkens, Susan van den Hof, Wieneke Meijer, Karen Oud, Erika Slump, Jaap van Dissel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240557941630033X