ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2013
High rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among socially marginalized immigrants in low-incidence area, 1991-2010, Italy.
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- Latent tuberculosis infection screening in immigrants to low-incidence countries: a meta-analysis.Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2015Pooled it
- A systematic review on TST and IGRA tests used for diagnosis of LTBI in immigrants.Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2015Pooled it
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- Updates on the risk factors for latent tuberculosis reactivation and their managements.Emerging microbes & infections · 2016Review
- Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Sicily, Italy: what has changed after a decade?BMC infectious diseases · 2014Article
- Risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis in Croatia: a matched case-control study.BMC public health · 2013Article
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Abstract
Migration from low- and middle-income countries to high-income countries increasingly determines the severity of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the adopted country. Socially marginalized groups, about whom little is known, may account for a reservoir of TB among the immigrant populations. We investigated the rates of and risk factors for Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission, infection, and disease in a cohort of 27,358 socially marginalized immigrants who were systematically screened (1991-2010) in an area of Italy with low TB incidence. Overall TB and latent TB infection prevalence and annual tuberculin skin testing conversion rates (i.e., incidence of new infection) were 2.7%, 34.6%, and 1.7%, respectively. Prevalence of both TB and latent TB infection and incidence of infection increased as a function of the estimated TB incidence in the immigrants' countries of origin. Annual infection incidence decreased with time elapsed since immigration. These findings have implications for control policy and immigrant screening in countries with a low prevalence of TB.
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