ArticleEpidemiology and infection2015
Tuberculosis-related stigma leading to an incomplete contact investigation in a low-incidence country.
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- Contact Tracing: Barriers and Facilitators.American journal of public health · 2022Article
- Race, Ethnicity, Nativity and Perceptions of Health Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Tuberculosis-related stigma and its determinants in Dalian, Northeast China: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Implementation of a volunteer contact tracing program for COVID-19 in the United States: A qualitative focus group study.PloS one · 2021Article
- Constructing and Communicating COVID-19 Stigma on Twitter: A Content Analysis of Tweets during the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Outbreak.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Addressing Disease-Related Stigma During Infectious Disease Outbreaks.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2019Article
- Perceptions of Tuberculosis Among Individuals Born in a High-Endemic Setting, Now Living in a Low-Endemic Setting.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2019Article
- High rate of transmission in a pulmonary tuberculosis outbreak in a primary school, north-eastern Italy, 2019.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2019Article
- Stigma against tuberculosis may hinder non-household contact investigation: a qualitative study in Thailand.Public health action · 2019Article
- A highly transmissible tuberculosis outbreak: the importance of bars.Epidemiology and infection · 2017Article
- Stakeholder perspectives for optimization of tuberculosis contact investigation in a high-burden setting.PloS one · 2017Article
- Tuberculosis in elderly Australians: a 10-year retrospective review.Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSARArticle
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Abstract
A contact investigation following a case of infectious tuberculosis (TB) reported in a call centre in Milan (Italy) led to the identification of three additional cases that had occurred in employees of the same workplace during the previous 5 years, one of whom was the probable source case. Thirty-three latent infections were also identified. At the time of diagnosis, the source case, because of fear of stigma related to TB, claimed to be unemployed and a contact investigation was not performed in the workplace. Cases were linked through genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB stigma has been described frequently, mainly in high-incidence settings, and is known to influence health-seeking behaviours and treatment adherence. The findings in this report highlight that TB-associated stigma may also lead to incomplete contact investigations. Little is known about the causes and impact of TB-related stigma in low-incidence countries and this warrants further exploration. Research is also needed to evaluate the effectiveness of specific interviewing techniques and training interventions for staff in reducing feelings of stigma in TB patients. Finally, the outbreak emphasizes the importance of integrating routine contact investigations with genotyping.
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