Annual Congress Vienna 2012

Saturday, 01.09.2012
Sunday, 02.09.2012
Monday, 03.09.2012
Tuesday, 04.09.2012
Wednesday, 05.09.2012

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2012; 40: Suppl. 56, abstract number.



Tuberculosis: epidemiological and public health features

Poster Discussion
Chairs: S. Spiro (Middlesex, United Kingdom), M. Dara (Copenhagen, Denmark)
LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: Agreement between Quantiferon-TB-Gold In Tube, T-SPOT.TB and tuberculin skin testing for diagnosing latent tuberculosis infection in a contact tracing study
N. Altet, I. Latorre, M. De Souza, M. A. Jimenez, C. Mila, J. Solsona, E. Lara, M. D. Ferrer, J. Caylà, J. A. Dominguez Benitez (Badalona Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
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Tuberculosis in health care staff in Romania, 2006-2010
N. Cioran, H. Cocei, E. Ibraim (Bucharest, Romania)
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Pattern of tuberculosis (TB) among health care Workers (HCW) attending a revised national TB control programme (RNTCP) unit in Kottayam Medical College (Kerala India)
P. Davis, A. Cherakulam (Kottayam, India)
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Tuberculosis (TB) notifications in healthcare workers (HCW) in Liverpool, UK
N. Coombes, S.M.H. Kazmi, S. Mackin, C. Bisacre, P. Davies (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
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Tuberculosis among health care workers
M. Zakoska, B. Ilievska Poposka, I. Vaiti (Skopje, Tetovo, Fyrom)
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Risk of latent tuberculosis infection among healthcare trainees
A. Schablon, G. Diner, U. Anske, F. Ringshausen, A. Nienhaus (Hamburg, Berlin, Hanover, Germany)
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The effect of the introduction of IGRA in screening French healthcare workers for tuberculosis
D. Tripodi, B. Courtois, A. Nienhaus (Nantes, France; Hamburg, Germany)
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Contact screening in tuberculosis. Can we identify those with higher risk?
M.A. Mendes, A.R. Gaio, R. Reis, F. Calvário, M.M. Sousa, A. Carvalho, R. Duarte (Porto, Vila Real, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)
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Approaching tuberculosis in a vulnerable group
E. Ibraim, N. Cioran, N. Popescu, F.L. Furtunescu (Bucharest, Romania)
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Tuberculosis and migration: Predictors of epidemiological trends
I. Golubeva, V. Zhuravlev, N. Skrynnik (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)
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New-entrant screening for tuberculosis at port of entry in the U.K.: Is it time to change policy?
V. Punamiya, H. Kunst, M. Dedicoat, J. Troko (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
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Impaired pulmonary function and the risk of tuberculosis – A population based cohort study
M. Inghammar, C.G. Löfdahl, N. Winquist, G. Engström, A. Egesten (Lund, Sweden)
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Incidence of tuberculosis: The application of capture-recapture method to compare two sources of information
F. Muñiz, M. López, N. Carracedo, S. Raposo, P. Rivas, S. Garcia, J. Guerra (León, Spain)
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Efficiency of molecular methods for epidemiological investigation in tuberculosis (TB)
K. Kruczak, E. Augustynowicz-Kopec, M. Kozinska, G. Passak-Standa, M. Duplaga, Z. Zwolska, E. Nizankowska-Mogilnicka (Krakow, Warsaw, Poland)
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Administration of BCG vaccination: Survey of practice in the Mersey region, UK
S. Mackin, S.M.H. Kazmi, N. Coombes, M. Hussain, C. Bisacre, P. Davies (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
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Enhancing patient safety: New WHO guidance on pharmacovigilance in tuberculosis care
S.N. Pal, C. Lienhardt, S. Olsson, D. Falzon (Geneva, Switzerland; Uppsala, Sweden)
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