Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2013)

Tuberculosis Outbreak in a Primary School, Milan, Italy

  • Marino Faccini,
  • Luigi Ruffo Codecasa,
  • Giorgio Ciconali,
  • Serafina Cammarata,
  • Catia Rosanna Borriello,
  • Costanza De Gioia,
  • Alessandro Za,
  • Andrea Filippo Marino,
  • Valentina Vighi,
  • Maurizio Ferrarese,
  • Giovanni Gesu,
  • Ester Mazzola,
  • Silvana Castaldi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1903.120527
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 3
pp. 485 – 487

Abstract

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Investigation of an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in a primary school in Milan, Italy, found 15 schoolchildren had active TB disease and 173 had latent TB infection. TB was also identified in 2 homeless men near the school. Diagnostic delay, particularly in the index case-patient, contributed to the transmission of infection.

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