Trends and challenges in tuberculosis in a medium-sized southern European setting [Notes from the field]

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%)...

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Veröffentlicht in:The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease 2012-05, Vol.16 (5), p.645-648
Hauptverfasser: Pasticci, M. B., Mazzolla, R., Mercuri, A., Gamboni, G., Bombaci, J. C., Tiecco, C., Rubeca, M., Papili, R., Pasticci, F., Casali, L., Ferrara, G., Baldelli, F.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1027-3719
1815-7920
DOI:10.5588/ijtld.11.0618