%0 Journal Article
%A Monge-Maillo, Begoña
%A Carolina Jiménez, B.
%A Pérez-Molina, José A.
%A Norman, Francesca
%A Navarro, Miriam
%A Pérez De Ayala Balzola, Ana
%A Herrero Martínez, Juan María
%A Zamarrón, Pilar
%A López-Vélez, Rogelio
%T Imported Infectious Diseases in Mobile Populations, Spain
%D 2009
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/131863
%X Migration has contributed to the emergence of certain infectious diseases. To determine which infectious diseases were most common among 2 mobile immigrant groups (sub-Saharan Africans and Latin Americans) in Spain, we analyzed health and demographic characteristics of 2,198 immigrants referred to the Tropical Medicine Unit of Ramón y Cajal Hospital over a 20-year period. The most frequent diagnoses were for latent tuberculosis (716 patients [32.6%]), filariasis (421 [19.2%]), hepatropic virus chronic infection (262 [19.2%]), intestinal parasites (242 [11.0%]), and malaria (212 [9.6%]). Health screening of immigrant populations is needed to ensure early diagnosis and treatment of potentially transmissible infections.
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