Epidemiology of tuberculosis in immigrant patients hospitalised in Infectious Diseases Units in Italy: Multicentric study;Epidemiologia della tubercolosi tra gli immigrati ricoverati in Italia presso Unità Operative di Malattie Infettive. Uno studio multicentrico

Infezioni in Medicina

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 245-251

  Scotto, Gaetano ^a,b   Saracino, Annalisa ^a,b   El Hamed, Issa ^b   Iannace, Maria Donata ^b   Geraci, Salvatore ^b   Palumbo, Emilio ^a   Cibelli, Donatella Concetta ^a   Angarano, Gioacchino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b SIMIT ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Hospitalisation; Immigration; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; BCG VACCINATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; EASTERN EUROPE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMIGRATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; ITALY; KIDNEY TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; SCREENING; SEX RATIO; SOUTH AMERICA; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 13444250980     PISSN: 11249390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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