Outbreak of pre- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in northern Italy: urgency of cross-border, multidimensional, surveillance systems

Eur Respir J. 2021 Sep 16;58(3):2100839. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00839-2021. Print 2021 Sep.

Simone Villa^{1

2}, Elisa Tagliani^{3

2}, Emanuele Borroni³, Paola Francesca Castellotti⁴, Maurizio Ferrarese⁴, Arash Ghodousi³, Anna Lamberti⁵, Sabrina Senatore⁵, Marino Faccini^{5

6}, Daniela Maria Cirillo^{7

6}, Luigi Ruffo Codecasa^{8

6}

¹ Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
² Co-first author (equally contributed).
³ Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Regional TB Reference Centre, Villa Marelli Institute and Laboratory/ASST Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Health Protection Agency, Metropolitan Area of Milan, Milan, Italy.
⁶ Co-last author (equally contributed).
⁷ Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy [email protected].
⁸ Regional TB Reference Centre, Villa Marelli Institute, ASST Niguarda, Milan, Italy.

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