TB Research

[182] Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection Screening Among Asylum Seekers in Milan, Italy

Simone Villa, Marino Faccini, M. Pontello, Mario Raviǵlione, Maurizio Ferrarese, Paola Castellotti, Sabrina Senatore, Anna Lamberti, et al. (11 authors)

COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease · 2019-03

Abstract

Since 2015, migratory flows to Italy from countries with high incidence of tuberculosis (TB), especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent, have increased. Social issues and p...

MeSH terms

  • Tuberculosis
  • Indian subcontinent
  • Refugee
  • Incidence (geometry)
  • Latent tuberculosis
  • Medicine
  • Geography
  • Environmental health