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. 2014 Dec 11;6(4):5646.
doi: 10.4081/idr.2014.5646. eCollection 2014 Nov 19.

High prevalence of clustered tuberculosis cases in peruvian migrants in florence, Italy

Lorenzo Zammarchi  1 , Enrico Tortoli  2 , Emanuele Borroni  2 , Filippo Bartalesi  3 , Marianne Strohmeyer  1 , Simonetta Baretti  4 , Maria Tullia Simonetti  5 , Carola Liendo  6 , Maria Grazia Santini  4 , Gian Maria Rossolini  5 , Eduardo Gotuzzo  6 , Alessandro Bartoloni  7 ; COHEMI project study group
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High prevalence of clustered tuberculosis cases in peruvian migrants in florence, Italy

Lorenzo Zammarchi et al. Infect Dis Rep. .

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a leading cause of morbidity for Peruvian migrants in Florence, Italy, where they account for about 20% of yearly diagnosed cases. A retrospective study on cases notified in Peruvian residents in Florence in the period 2001-2010 was carried out and available Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains were genotyped (MIRU-VNTR-24 and Spoligotyping). One hundred thirty eight cases were retrieved. Genotyping performed in 87 strains revealed that 39 (44.8%) belonged to 12 clusters. Assuming that in each cluster the transmission of tuberculosis from the index case took place in Florence, a large proportion of cases could be preventable by improving early diagnosis of contagious cases and contact tracing.

Keywords: Italy; Peru; cluster; epidemiology; immigrants; migrants; tuberculosis.

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Conflict of interests: the authors declare no potential conflict of interests.

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Figure 1.
Cluster analysis, on the basis of MIRU-VNTR-24 phenotype and spoligotype, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from 87 Peruvian patients.
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