In recent Correspondence about the screening and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in migrants who had moved from countries with a high tuberculosis burden to low-burden countries, Kayvan Bozorgmehr¹ reported that asylum seekers in Germany from Somalia and Iraq had very different prevalences of latent infection. He commented that “Many studies on effectiveness of tuberculosis screening treat migrants as homogenous, neglecting that this population is socially constructed and highly heterogeneous”, citing our study² as one of the examples.

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有结核病风险的移民的移民后随访

在最近关于从结核病高负担国家转移到负担轻的国家的移民中筛查和治疗潜伏性结核感染的信函中，Kayvan Bozorgmehr ¹报告说，来自索马里和伊拉克的德国寻求庇护者的潜伏感染率有很大不同。他评论说：“许多关于结核病筛查有效性的研究认为移民是同质的，而忽略了这个人口是社会建构的并且高度异质的”，并以我们的研究²为例。