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BACKGROUND: Immigration flow from developing countries to European countries is growing continually, but data about imported infectious diseases in immigrant children are few. METHODS: Descriptive and retrospective study of 125 sub-Saharan African children 0.05). Thirty-nine (21.9%) cases of filariasis were diagnosed. Hepatitis B serology was performed in 75 children: 24 (32%) were cured hepatitis B (antibody-positive only); 5 (6.6%) were hepatitis B surface antigen-positive; and 1 of 59 cases (1.7%) was hepatitis C-positive. The prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection was 12.9% (7 of 54 purified protein derivative skin tests performed). CONCLUSIONS: The high infection rates of some diseases in immigrant children point to the need for screening sub-Saharan African children.
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