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Infectious Disease Reports, Volume 8, Issue 2

2016 June - 6 articles

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Articles (6)

  • Review
  • Open Access
184 Citations
5,250 Views
5 Pages

Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, accounting for about 9.6 million new cases and 1.5 million deaths annually. The poorest and socially excluded groups carry the largest burden of disease, which makes it essent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
1,315 Views
7 Pages

Active Tuberculosis Case Finding Interventions among Immigrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy

  • Monica Sañé Schepisi,
  • Gina Gualano,
  • Pierluca Piselli,
  • Marta Mazza,
  • Donatella D’Angelo,
  • Francesca Fasciani,
  • Alberto Barbieri,
  • Giorgia Rocca,
  • Filippo Gnolfo and
  • Enrico Girardi
  • + 4 authors

In Italy tuberculosis (TB) is largely concentrated in vulnerable groups such as migrants and in urban settings. We analyzed three TB case finding interventions conducted at primary centers and mobile clinics for regular/ irregular immigrants and refu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
2,060 Views
7 Pages

New Antituberculosis Drugs: From Clinical Trial to Programmatic Use

  • Gina Gualano,
  • Susanna Capone,
  • Alberto Matteelli and
  • Fabrizio Palmieri

Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases is challenging because it relies on second-line drugs that are less potent and more toxic than those used in the clinical management of drug-susceptible TB. Moreover, treatment outcomes for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,161 Views
5 Pages

Molecular Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains: A Fundamental Tool for Tuberculosis Control and Elimination

  • Angela Cannas,
  • Antonio Mazzarelli,
  • Antonino Di Caro,
  • Giovanni Delogu and
  • Enrico Girardi

Tuberculosis (TB) is still an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. An improvement of the strategies for disease control is necessary in both low- and high-incidence TB countries. Clinicians, epidemiologists, laboratory specialists, a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
151 Citations
3,882 Views
9 Pages

Tuberculosis Biomarkers: From Diagnosis to Protection

  • Delia Goletti,
  • Elisa Petruccioli,
  • Simone A. Joosten and
  • Tom H.M. Ottenhoff

New approaches to control tuberculosis (TB) worldwide are needed. In particular, new tools for diagnosis and new biomarkers are required to evaluate both pathogen and host key elements of the response to infection. Non-sputum based diagnostic tests,...

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