1. HIV Infection among Illegal Migrants, Italy, 2004–2007
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Maria Chiara Pezzoli, Issa El Hamad, Carmelo Scarcella, Francesco Vassallo, Fabrizio Speziani, Graziella Cristini, Carla Scolari, Barbara Suligoi, Anna Maria Luzi, Daniela Bernasconi, Miriam Lichtner, Nino Manca, Giampiero Carosi, and Francesco Castelli
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HIV/AIDS and other retroviruses ,viruses ,migrants ,prevalence ,exposure ,Italy ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - 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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- 2009
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