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Prevalence of chronic infections and susceptibility to measles and varicella-zoster virus in Latin American immigrants
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Jackson, Yves-Laurent Julien
Santos, Lilian
Arm-Vernez, Isabelle
Mauris, Anne
Wolff, Hans
Chappuis, François
Getaz, Laurent
Published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 2016, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 41
Abstract Large numbers of Latin American immigrants recently arrived in Western Europe. Curative and preventive programmes need to take account of their risk of suffering and transmitting imported chronic infections and of their susceptibility to cosmopolitan infections. We aimed to assess the prevalence and co-occurrence of imported chronic infections among Latin American immigrants, and their susceptibility to highly prevalent cosmopolitan infections.
Keywords Adult — Animals — Bolivia/ethnology — Chronic Disease/epidemiology/ethnology — Coinfection/epidemiology/ethnology — Communicable Diseases/epidemiology/ethnology — Cross-Sectional Studies — Disease Susceptibility/ethnology — Emigrants and Immigrants/statistics & numerical data — Europe/epidemiology — Female — Herpesvirus 3, Human/pathogenicity — Humans — Latin America/ethnology — Male — Measles/epidemiology/ethnology — Middle Aged — Prevalence
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PMID: 27164954
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département d'anesthésiologie, pharmacologie, soins intensifs et urgences
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et médecine communautaires
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et médecine communautaires / Institut de santé globale
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(ISO format) 		JACKSON, Yves-Laurent Julien et al. Prevalence of chronic infections and susceptibility to measles and varicella-zoster virus in Latin American immigrants. In: Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2016, vol. 5, n° 1, p. 41. doi: 10.1186/s40249-016-0136-7 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:102447

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