Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Elderly Patients: A 2016-2019 Retrospective Analysis from an Italian Referral Hospital

• Hauptverfasser: Francesco Di Gennaro (Verfasst von), Pietro Vittozzi (Verfasst von), Gina Gualano (Verfasst von), Maria Musso (Verfasst von), Silvia Mosti (Verfasst von), Paola Mencarini (Verfasst von), Carlo Pareo (Verfasst von), Antonino Di Caro (Verfasst von), Vincenzo Schininà (Verfasst von), Enrico Girardi (Verfasst von), Fabrizio Palmieri (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: MDPI AG, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Tuberculosis (TB) in the elderly (>65 years old) has increasingly become a global health problem. It has long been recognized that older people are vulnerable to developing tuberculosis. We retrospectively evaluated data from patients older than 65 years diagnosed with pulmonary TB admitted to th...