Screening immigrants for tuberculosis—why not for HBV infection?

The Liver Unit in Birmingham, a city with a large immigrant population, has seen an almost five-fold increase in the number of new HBV referrals between 2001 and 2010.4 Resurgence of supra infection with the delta virus in HBsAg positive individuals is another important public health problem (especi...

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Published in:	The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 381; no. 9884; pp. 2164 - 2165
Main Authors:	Williams, Roger, Holt, Andrew P
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Elsevier Ltd 22-06-2013 Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	Emigrants and Immigrants - statistics & numerical data Female Health Policy Hepatitis Hepatitis B - diagnosis Hepatitis B - epidemiology Humans Immigrants Immigration policy Internal Medicine Male Mass Screening - standards Mass Screening - trends Needs Assessment Noncitizens Policy Making Public health Tuberculosis Tuberculosis - diagnosis Tuberculosis - epidemiology United Kingdom United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:	The Liver Unit in Birmingham, a city with a large immigrant population, has seen an almost five-fold increase in the number of new HBV referrals between 2001 and 2010.4 Resurgence of supra infection with the delta virus in HBsAg positive individuals is another important public health problem (especially in areas with substantial numbers of immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe)5 because it creates a pool of infection resistant to antiviral therapy, and one associated with more rapid disease progression to cirrhosis.
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ISSN:	0140-6736 1474-547X
DOI:	10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61438-5