Adair R, Nwaneri O
Department of Medical Education, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn 55407, USA.
Arch Intern Med. 1999 Jan 11;159(1):83-5. doi: 10.1001/archinte.159.1.83.
Despite increasing numbers of African immigrants to the United States, there is a lack of detailed information about their health problems.
Data on communicable diseases were obtained from the charts of all 102 patients who had emigrated from Africa in the last 5 years and were seen at an urban clinic in Minneapolis, Minn, during the last 7 months of 1997.
Eight patients had active tuberculosis, 10 had hepatitis B, 7 trichuriasis, 2 amebiasis, 1 schistosomiasis, 1 ascariasis, 2 human immunodeficiency virus infection, and 1 malaria. All patients tested had antibodies to hepatitis A, 55% to hepatitis B, and 3% to hepatitis C. Characteristics of these patients are described.
Communicable diseases are common in African immigrants, often despite a healthy appearance and prolonged residence in the United States. Careful screening is warranted.
尽管移民到美国的非洲人数量不断增加，但缺乏有关他们健康问题的详细信息。
从1997年最后7个月在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市一家城市诊所就诊的过去5年中从非洲移民来的所有102例患者的病历中获取传染病数据。
8例患者患有活动性结核病，10例患有乙型肝炎，7例患有鞭虫病，2例患有阿米巴病，1例患有血吸虫病，1例患有蛔虫病，2例患有人类免疫缺陷病毒感染，1例患有疟疾。所有接受检测的患者均对甲型肝炎有抗体，55%对乙型肝炎有抗体，3%对丙型肝炎有抗体。描述了这些患者的特征。
传染病在非洲移民中很常见，尽管他们外表健康且在美国居住时间较长。有必要进行仔细筛查。
