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Impact of immigration on tuberculosis in a low-incidence area of Italy: a molecular epidemiological approach.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Nov 2010
Garzelli C, Lari N, Cuccu B, Tortoli E, Rindi L
Abstract excerpt
The effects that immigration might have on the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in a low-incidence area of Italy was investigated by determining, in autochthonous and immigrant TB patients, the molecular characteristics of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) isolates, which may provide...
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