Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2009)

HIV Infection among Illegal Migrants, Italy, 2004–2007

  • 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,
  • Francesco Castelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1511.090908
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 11
pp. 1802 – 1804

Abstract

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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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