Trends and challenges in tuberculosis in a medium-sized southern European setting
| Autor: | Pasticci, Maria Bruna, Mazzolla, Rosanna, Mercuri, Alessandra, Gamboni, G., Bombaci, J. C., Tiecco, C., Rubeca, M., Papili, R., Pasticci, F., Casali, L., Ferrara, Giovanni, Baldelli, Franco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
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Male Age Factors Antitubercular Agents Emigrants and Immigrants foreigners Middle Aged Hospitalization Hospitals University Italy Drug Resistance Bacterial Tuberculosis Multidrug-Resistant Humans Tuberculosis epidemiological trends Female Prospective Studies Tuberculosis Pulmonary Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 16(5) |
| ISSN: | 1815-7920 |
| Popis: | Trends in tuberculosis (TB) admissions over 40 years at the Infectious Diseases Clinic of Perugia University Hospital, Perugia, Italy, show that in the last decade non-Italian TB case admissions outweighed those of Italians, with a large number of cases from Eastern Europe (25.2%) and Africa (23.4%). Non-Italians tended to be younger and were generally new pulmonary TB cases, and drug resistance was also more common. Overall, the number of multidrug-resistant cases increased. Only one case occurred in a native-born Italian, and five of seven cases had newly diagnosed TB. In low TB incidence settings such as Perugia, Italy, TB prevention and control programmes for the foreign-born need to be reinforced. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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