Tuberculosis in kindergarten and primary school, Italy, 2008-2009

An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in Italy involved 19 schoolchildren with active TB and 43 with latent infection. The source of the outbreak was a school assistant born in Italy who had a family history of TB. This outbreak highlights the need for maintaining clinical and public health expertise in...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Emerging infectious diseases 2011-03, Vol.17 (3), p.514-516
Hauptverfasser:	Filia, Antonietta, Ciarrocchi, Giuseppe, Belfiglio, Rossana, Caferri, Monaldo, Bella, Antonino, Piersimoni, Claudio, Cirillo, Daniela, Grilli, Gualtiero, Mancini, Cristina, Greco, Donato
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult bacteria Child, Preschool Contact Tracing Control Demographic aspects Disease Outbreaks Disease transmission Diseases and pests Dispatch Distribution Elementary school students Female Humans Incidence Italy - epidemiology kindergarten Male Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification outbreak primary school Schools - statistics & numerical data Tuberculosis tuberculosis and other mycobacteria Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - microbiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - transmission
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Zusammenfassung:	An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in Italy involved 19 schoolchildren with active TB and 43 with latent infection. The source of the outbreak was a school assistant born in Italy who had a family history of TB. This outbreak highlights the need for maintaining clinical and public health expertise in countries with low TB incidence.
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid1703.101440