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SUBMITTER: Campogiani L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6981912 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Campogiani Laura L Compagno Mirko M Coppola Luigi L Malagnino Vincenzo V Maffongelli Gaetano G Saraca Lavinia Maria LM Francisci Daniela D Baldelli Franco F Fontana Carla C Grelli Sandro S Andreoni Massimo M Sotgiu Giovanni G Saderi Laura L Sarmati Loredana L
International journal of environmental research and public health 20191223 1
In recent years, a decrease in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) has been recorded worldwide. However, an increase in TB cases has been reported in foreign people living in low-incidence countries, with an increase in extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) in the western region of the world. In the present work, a retrospective study was conducted in two Italian infectious diseases wards to evaluate the clinical characteristics of TB admission in the time period 2013-2017. A significant increase in TB was sh ...[more]