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The study was supported by the Catalonian Government [PERIS 2017 SLT002/16/0045]. ISGlobal acknowledges support from the grant CEX2023-0001290-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and support from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the Cerca Program. AnaRequena-Mendez is funded by the Strategic Research Programme in Epidemiology at Karolinska Institute. AngelineCruz is funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII),co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) from the European Region, through the'Contratos predoctorales de formacion en investigacion (PFIS)',grant number FI22/00156. The funders of the study had norole in study design, data collection, data analysis, datainterpretation or writing of the manuscript.

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Epidemiology of infectious diseases in migrant populations from endemic or high-endemic countries: A multicentric primary care-based study in Spain

Publicado en:Tropical Medicine & International Health. 29 (9): 820-832 - 2024-07-19 29(9), DOI: 10.1111/tmi.14036

Autores: Cruz, A; Sequeira-Aymar, E; Casellas, A; Cuxart-Graell, A; Requena-Méndez, A; Gonçalves, AQ; Llorca, MRD; Aguilar-Martín, C; Camps-Vila, L; Monclús-González, MM; Revuelta-Muñoz, EM; Busquet-Solé, N; Sarriegui-Domínguez, S

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Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the epidemiology of seven infections (Chagas disease, strongyloidiasis, schistosomiasis, human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and C virus, and active tuberculosis) in migrant populations attended at primary care facilities in Catalonia, Spain. Methods: This is a cross sectional study conducted from March to December 2018 at eight primary care centres in Catalonia, Spain where health professionals were recommended to systematically screen multiple infections in migrants considering the endemicity of the pathogens in their country of birth. Routine health data were retrospectively extracted from electronic health records of the primary care centres. The proportion of cases among individuals tested for each infection was estimated with its 95% confident interval (CI). Mixed-effects logistics regression models were conducted to assess any possible association between the exposure variables and the primary outcome. Results: Out of the 15,780 migrants that attended primary care centres, 2410 individuals were tested for at least one infection. Of the 508 (21.1%) migrants diagnosed with at least one condition, a higher proportion originated from Sub-Saharan Africa (207, 40.7%), followed by South-East Europe (117, 23.0%) and Latin-America (88, 17.3%; p value

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