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Transmission permeability of tuberculosis involving immigrants, revealed by a multicentre analysis of clusters.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 May 2009
Alonso Rodríguez N, Chaves F, Iñigo J, Bouza E, García de Viedma D, Andrés S, Cías R, Daza R, Domingo D, Esteban J, García J, Gómez Mampaso E, Herranz M, Palenque E, Ruiz Serrano M J
Abstract excerpt
In recent years, the number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) among immigrants in Spain has increased markedly, and led to this analysis of the recent transmission patterns of TB in the immigrant population in Madrid. The countries from which the highest number of immigrant cases have been reported were Ecuador (21%), Romania (16%), Morocco (12%), Peru (11%) and Bolivia (9%). Fifty-one per cent of the cases were from...
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