Tuberculosis in Kindergarten and Primary School, Italy, 2008–2009

An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in Italy involved 19 schoolchildren with active TB and 43 with latent infection. The source of the outbreak was a school assistant born in Italy who had a family history of TB. This outbreak highlights the need for maintaining clinical and public health expertise in...

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Autores principales: Filia, Antonietta, Ciarrocchi, Giuseppe, Belfiglio, Rossana, Caferri, Monaldo, Bella, Antonino, Piersimoni, Claudio, Cirillo, Daniela, Grilli, Gualtiero, Mancini, Cristina, Greco, Donato
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21392447
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1703.101440
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author Filia, Antonietta
Ciarrocchi, Giuseppe
Belfiglio, Rossana
Caferri, Monaldo
Bella, Antonino
Piersimoni, Claudio
Cirillo, Daniela
Grilli, Gualtiero
Mancini, Cristina
Greco, Donato
author_facet Filia, Antonietta
Ciarrocchi, Giuseppe
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description An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in Italy involved 19 schoolchildren with active TB and 43 with latent infection. The source of the outbreak was a school assistant born in Italy who had a family history of TB. This outbreak highlights the need for maintaining clinical and public health expertise in countries with low TB incidence.
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spelling pubmed-31660252011-11-15 Tuberculosis in Kindergarten and Primary School, Italy, 2008–2009 Filia, Antonietta Ciarrocchi, Giuseppe Belfiglio, Rossana Caferri, Monaldo Bella, Antonino Piersimoni, Claudio Cirillo, Daniela Grilli, Gualtiero Mancini, Cristina Greco, Donato Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in Italy involved 19 schoolchildren with active TB and 43 with latent infection. The source of the outbreak was a school assistant born in Italy who had a family history of TB. This outbreak highlights the need for maintaining clinical and public health expertise in countries with low TB incidence. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3166025/ /pubmed/21392447 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1703.101440 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Cirillo, Daniela
Grilli, Gualtiero
Mancini, Cristina
Greco, Donato
Tuberculosis in Kindergarten and Primary School, Italy, 2008–2009
title Tuberculosis in Kindergarten and Primary School, Italy, 2008–2009
title_full Tuberculosis in Kindergarten and Primary School, Italy, 2008–2009
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title_full_unstemmed Tuberculosis in Kindergarten and Primary School, Italy, 2008–2009
title_short Tuberculosis in Kindergarten and Primary School, Italy, 2008–2009
title_sort tuberculosis in kindergarten and primary school, italy, 2008–2009
topic Dispatch
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