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Epidemiological trend in tuberculosis in the Italian region of Liguria: Impact of immigration and AIDS

Author(s) -

Paolo Crimi,

Gianni Macrina,

Francesca Saettone,

Walter Turello,

Paola Ramorino,

Roberto Gasparini,

Pietro Crovari

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

european journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056

H-Index - 91

eISSN - 1464-360X

pISSN - 1101-1262

DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/cki081

Subject(s) - tuberculosis , demography , immigration , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , developed country , nationality , medicine , mortality rate , geography , population , environmental health , physics , archaeology , pathology , sociology , optics

Tuberculosis (TB) uniformly decreased in all industrialized countries from 1950 to 1985. However, since 1985 an upsurge of the disease has been observed, probably due to the increases in AIDS and immigration. It is for this reason that in the last decade all industrialized countries have intensified their controls on TB and a new reduction has been recently observed.

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