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2025-05-16 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
2025-05-16 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
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2014-12-11 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2014-12-11 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BACKGROUND
Chagas disease (CD) is endemic in Central and South America, Mexico and even in some areas of the United States. However, cases have been increasingly recorded also in no...
Chagas disease (CD) is endemic in Central and South America, Mexico and even in some areas of the United States. However, cases have been increasingly recorded also in no...
Journal Article
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2018-08-01 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
2018-08-01 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
BACKGROUND
Access and linkage to care for migrant torture survivors is contingent on their identification and appropriate referral. However, appropriate tools for identification of s...
Access and linkage to care for migrant torture survivors is contingent on their identification and appropriate referral. However, appropriate tools for identification of s...
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2012-08-28 • PLOS Medicine
2012-08-28 • PLOS Medicine
Treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is lengthy, toxic, expensive, and has generally poor outcomes. We undertook an individual patient data meta-analysis to assess the ...
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2018-05-08 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2018-05-08 • BMC Infectious Diseases
Chagas disease (CD) is a systemic parasitic infection caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, whose chronic phase may lead to cardiac and intestinal disorders. Endemic in Latin Americ...
Conference Material
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2020-09-24 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2020
2020-09-24 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2020
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2015-09-25 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2015-09-25 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
OBJECTIVES
Chagas disease (CD) represents a growing problem in Europe; Italy is one of the most affected countries but there is no national framework for CD and access-to-care is cha...
Chagas disease (CD) represents a growing problem in Europe; Italy is one of the most affected countries but there is no national framework for CD and access-to-care is cha...
Journal Article
|Research
2016-06-15 • Conflict and Health
2016-06-15 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND
In recent years Europe has received an increasing influx of migrants, many of whom risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea. In October 2013, Italy launched a sea...
In recent years Europe has received an increasing influx of migrants, many of whom risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea. In October 2013, Italy launched a sea...
Journal Article
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2018-03-16 • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
2018-03-16 • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
OBJECTIVES:
We aimed to assess the prevalence and risk factors for Chagas disease (CD) in Latin American immigrants and to evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic tests. Moreover, we of...
We aimed to assess the prevalence and risk factors for Chagas disease (CD) in Latin American immigrants and to evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic tests. Moreover, we of...
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2016-05-20 • International Health
2016-05-20 • International Health
BACKGROUND
Between June 2012 and December 2013 Médecins Sans Frontières launched a pilot project with the aim of testing a strategy for improving timely diagnosis of active pulmonary...
Between June 2012 and December 2013 Médecins Sans Frontières launched a pilot project with the aim of testing a strategy for improving timely diagnosis of active pulmonary...
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2017-01-13 • Conflict and Health
2017-01-13 • Conflict and Health
In 2015, Italy was the second most common point of entry for asylum seekers into Europe after Greece. The vast majority embarked from war-torn Libya; 80,000 people claimed asylum that ye...
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2019-05-31 • PLOS One
2019-05-31 • PLOS One
INTRODUCTION:
Antibiotic misuse is widespread and contributes to antibiotic resistance, especially in less regulated health systems such as India. Although informal providers are in...
Antibiotic misuse is widespread and contributes to antibiotic resistance, especially in less regulated health systems such as India. Although informal providers are in...
Journal Article
|Commentary
2009-06-20 • Lancet
2009-06-20 • Lancet
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2021-09-01 • Eurosurveillance
2021-09-01 • Eurosurveillance
Prisons are high-risk settings for COVID-19 and present specific challenges for prevention and control. We describe a COVID-19 outbreak in a large prison in Milan between 20 February and...
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2010-06-19 • AIDS
2010-06-19 • AIDS
INTRODUCTION
Primate studies and some observational human data have raised concern regarding an association of first-trimester efavirenz exposure with central nervous system congenit...
Primate studies and some observational human data have raised concern regarding an association of first-trimester efavirenz exposure with central nervous system congenit...
Journal Article
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Screening of asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease among refugee/migrant children and youths in Italy
2019-04-02 • BMC Pediatric Rheumatology
2019-04-02 • BMC Pediatric Rheumatology
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a chronic condition responsible of congestive heart failure, stroke and arrhythmia. Almost eradicated in high-income countries (HIC), it persists in low-...
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2012-02-08 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2012-02-08 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
BACKGROUND: Current treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is inadequate, and outcomes are significantly poorer than for drug-susceptible TB, particularly for patients previou...
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2013-02-05 • PLOS One
2013-02-05 • PLOS One
Co-infection with Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV is common and HIV accelerates hepatic disease progression due to HCV. However, access to HCV treatment is limited and success rates are genera...
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2021-02-09 • BMC Psychiatry
2021-02-09 • BMC Psychiatry
BACKGROUND
The process of immigration is associated with poor mental and physical health. While the workplace represents an important context of social integration, previous studies ...
The process of immigration is associated with poor mental and physical health. While the workplace represents an important context of social integration, previous studies ...