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

• Main Authors: Francesco Di Gennaro (Author), Pietro Vittozzi (Author), Gina Gualano (Author), Maria Musso (Author), Silvia Mosti (Author), Paola Mencarini (Author), Carlo Pareo (Author), Antonino Di Caro (Author), Vincenzo Schininà (Author), Enrico Girardi (Author), Fabrizio Palmieri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...