Abstract
Note from the editors: World Tuberculosis Day 2018 and Special issue-Screening and prevention of infectious diseases in newly arrived migrants in Europe.
Highlights
To mark WTBD 2018, Eurosurveillance published the first articles of the ‘Special issue–Screening and prevention of infectious diseases in newly arrived migrants in Europe’ on 15 March 2018 and this week’s issue features a further article from the series
Eight contributions were selected for the special issue from the 24 manuscripts submitted in response to a call for papers in March 2017 [5]. They will be published successively in the coming weeks and the whole series will be made available for download as a single PDF thereafter
The ones published so far are on TB treatment outcomes among screened newly-arrived asylum seekers in Germany [6], the acceptance of integrating hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV screening into TB entry screening for migrants in the Netherlands [7], and the outcome of TB screening asylum seeking children and adolescents from countries with high and low TB prevalence in reception centres in two German cities [8]
Summary
To mark WTBD 2018, Eurosurveillance published the first articles of the ‘Special issue–Screening and prevention of infectious diseases in newly arrived migrants in Europe’ on 15 March 2018 and this week’s issue features a further article from the series.
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