Outbreak of pre- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in northern italy: urgency of cross-border, multidimensional, surveillance systems
- Simone Villa1,6,
- Elisa Tagliani2,6,
- Emanuele Borroni2,
- Paola Francesca Castellotti3,
- Maurizio Ferrarese3,
- Arash Ghodousi2,
- Anna Lamberti4,
- Sabrina Senatore4,
- Marino Faccini4,7,
- Daniela Maria Cirillo7⇑ and
- Luigi Ruffo Codecasa5,7
- 1Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- 2Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
- 3Regional TB Reference Centre, Villa Marelli Institute and Laboratory/ASST Niguarda, Milan, Italy
- 4Health Protection Agency, Metropolitan Area of Milan, Milan, Italy
- 5Regional TB Reference Centre, Villa Marelli Institute, ASST Niguarda, Milan, Italy
- 6co-first (equally contributed)
- 7co-last (equally contributed)
- Daniela Maria Cirillo (cirillo.daniela{at}hsr.it)
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Conflict of interest: Dr. Villa has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Tagliani has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Borroni has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Castellotti has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Ferrarese has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Ghodousi has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Lamberti has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Senatore has nothing to disclose.
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Conflict of interest: Dr. Cirillo has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Codecasa has nothing to disclose.
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- Received March 22, 2021.
- Accepted May 11, 2021.
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