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Multicenter Study
. 2009 Nov;15(11):1802-4.
doi: 10.3201/eid1511.090908.

HIV infection among illegal migrants, Italy, 2004-2007

Maria Chiara Pezzoli  1 , Issa El Hamad, Carmelo Scarcella, Francesco Vassallo, Fabrizio Speziani, Graziella Cristini, Carla Scolari, Barbara Suligoi, Anna Maria Luzi, Daniela Bernasconi, Miriam Lichtner, Giuseppina Cassara, Nino Manca, Giampiero Carosi, Francesco Castelli; PRISHMA Study Group
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Multicenter Study

HIV infection among illegal migrants, Italy, 2004-2007

Maria Chiara Pezzoli et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Nov.

Abstract

To determine HIV prevalence and place of exposure for illegal migrants in Italy, we tested 3,003 illegal adult migrants for HIV; 29 (0.97%) were HIV positive. Antibody avidity index results (indicators of time of infection) were available for 27 of those persons and showed that 6 (22.2%) presumably acquired their infection after migration.

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Antibody avidity indices for 27 HIV-infected migrants, Italy, 2004–2007. Horizontal line indicates the cutoff value. ID, identification.
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