Active tuberculosis screening among the displaced population fleeing Ukraine, France, February to October 2022.

Fiche publication

Date publication

mars 2023

Journal

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr FRAISSE Philippe

Tous les auteurs :
Guthmann JP, Fraisse P, Bonnet I, Robert J

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36951786

Résumé

Persons fleeing Ukraine since February 2022 have potentially higher risk of tuberculosis (TB) vs all European Union countries. Interest of active TB screening among this population is debated and not widely adopted. In this screening intervention by a network of TB centres in France, the number needed to screen (NNS) was 862 to find one case. This experience shows that this strategy may be relevant for TB control in situations of massive displacement, similar to that following the Russian invasion.