Moving towards tuberculosis elimination: a call for action from Italy and a possible model for other low tuberculosis incidence countries.

Affiliations: Dept of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, IRCCS Fondazione Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. Clinic of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia and Brescia Spedali Civili General Hospital, WHO Collaborating Centre for TB/HIV and TB Elimination, Brescia, Italy. Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari Research, Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy. Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, WHO collaborating Centre and TB Supranational Reference laboratory, San Raffaele Scientific institute, Milan, Italy. Respiratory Infectious Diseases Unit, National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘L. Spallanzani’, IRCCS Rome, Italy. Dept of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy. World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Maugeri Institute, IRCCS Tradate, Tradate, Italy.