Abstract:
:The present study was carried out in order to monitor the epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in the Padua Health District over the period 1985-1996 with a view to the situation in some population subgroups. The average annual rate per 100,000 persons per year was 7.9 with a peak in 1994 (15.6 per 100,000 persons). The most significant variations are not per annum but between the periods 1985-1990 and 1991-1996 (average rates per 100,000 persons: 4.8 and 10.9, respectively). The trend shows an increasing frequency in all age groups and especially among the elderly. Immigration from endemic areas and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection appear to contribute to the increase the number of notified cases among adults. In the last four years an increase of tuberculosis cases was also observed among subjects with professional exposure risk. Improvements of programs both at national and regional level are believed to be essential to the tuberculosis control.
journal_name
Eur J Epidemioljournal_title
European journal of epidemiologyauthors
Baldo V,Menegon T,Zannoni F,Angelopoulos A,Majori S,Piron L,Renzulli G,Trivello Rdoi
10.1023/a:1007458330542subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-02-01 00:00:00pages
125-8issue
2eissn
0393-2990issn
1573-7284journal_volume
14pub_type
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