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Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Students of Healthcare Professions and Postgraduates of the Faculty of Medicine of the University o…
2017
Introduction and objective: Italy is a country with a low incidence of tuberculosis and in the last fifty years the annual number of TB cases decreased from 12,247 to 4,418, showing a reduction of approximately 64% in the number of cases and 71% in incidence. Despite of this encouraging trend, in the last years the epidemiology of tuberculosis changed and today it is a re-emerging infectious. The aim of this study is to measure the prevalence of positivity to tuberculosis infection (latent TB) in students, without any obvious manifestation of disease, attending degree courses of the health care professions and postgraduate medical courses of the School of Medicine of the University of Paler…
Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Healthcare Students and Postgraduates in a Mediterranean Italian Area: What Correlation with Work Exposure?
2019
Background: Tuberculosis screening is part of the standard protocol for evaluating the risk of infection in healthcare workers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among students attending various healthcare profession degree courses and postgraduate medical courses at the School of Medicine of the University of Palermo, Italy, and assess the possible professional origin of infection. Methods: In total, 2946 students (2082 undergraduates and 864 postgraduates) took part in a screening program for LTBI between January 2014 to April 2019 using the tuberculin skin test (TST). Students with a positive TST result underwent a Quantiferon-TB…
Behavior in case of fever or cough in four districts of Madagascar : eterminants and implications for access to the health
2017
Malaria, tuberculosis and acute respiratory infections constitute a major public health issue in Madagascar, the first two of which are the subject of national control programs largely inspired and financed by international organizations. The diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive methods recommended officially in the conventional health system are standardized and are based on a solid corpus of scientific knowledge. Among other diseases, they are explicitly targeted by the universal sustainable development goals (SDG). To reach them, the United nations recommend the implementation of an universal health coverage (UHC). Madagascar has adopted the SDG and is committed to the implementation o…