Active recruitment strategy in disadvantaged immigrant populations improves the identification of human immunodeficiency but not of hepatitis B or C virus infections

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 62-66

  Stornaiuolo, Gianfranca ^a   Cuniato, Vincenzo ^b   Cuomo, Gianluca ^a   Nocera, Espedito ^b   Brancaccio, Giuseppina ^a   De Rosa, Maddalena ^b   Pontarelli, Agostina ^a   Grasso, Giovanni ^b   Danzi, Gaetano ^c   Grossi, Alessandra ^d   Natale, Renato F ^b   Gaeta, Giovanni B ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b Castelvolturno   (Italy)

^c g Moscati Hospital   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hepatitis B; Hepatitis C; HIV infection; Immigrants

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONDOM USE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG USE; EASTERN EUROPE; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NORTH AFRICA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SCREENING; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTION; IMMIGRANTS;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICA, NORTHERN; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOLISM; ASIA; COINFECTION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892366444     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2013.08.126     Document Type: Article

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