TY - JOUR AU - Pezzoli, Maria Chiara AU - El Hamad, Issa AU - Scarcella, Carmelo AU - Vassallo, Francesco AU - Speziani, Fabrizio AU - Cristini, Graziella AU - Scolari, Carla AU - Suligoi, Barbara AU - Luzi, Anna Maria AU - Bernasconi, Daniela AU - Lichtner, Miriam AU - Manca, Nino AU - Carosi, Giampiero AU - Castelli, Francesco T1 - HIV Infection among Illegal Migrants, Italy, 2004–2007 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 11 SP - 1802 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To determine HIV prevalence and place of exposure for illegal migrants in Italy, we tested 3,003 illegal adult migrants for HIV; 29 (0.97%) were HIV positive. Antibody avidity index results (indicators of time of infection) were available for 27 of those persons and showed that 6 (22.2%) presumably acquired their infection after migration. KW - HIV/AIDS and other retroviruses KW - viruses KW - migrants KW - prevalence KW - exposure KW - Italy KW - sub-Saharan Africa KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1511.090908 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/11/09-0908_article ER - End of Reference