• University ward belonging to University of Milano-Bicocca. San Gerardo Hospital is the third hospital of the Lombardia region with 1200 beds.
• The Division of Infectious Diseases has a clinical unit, a day-hospital and an out-patients clinic.
• The main activities is focused on HIV clinical research, epatology and tuberculosis.
• It is jointed to the Section of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine of "L. Sacco" Hospital with regard to studies on molecular epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of tuberculosis disease.

SECTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND TROPICAL MEDICINE, A.O. "L.SACCO", MILAN

• University ward belonging to University of Milan, it has a clinical unit, a day-hospital and an out-patients clinic.
• It has an university research laboratory highly experienced in studies concerning retrovirology, immunology and mycobacteriology.
• TB group carry out researches concern molecular epidemiology and epidemiological sureveillance of tuberculosis and other mycobacteria performing the genotypization of mycobacterial isolates both at regional and at national level in collaboration with San Gerardo Hospital, Villa Marelli Institute (TB Regional Reference Laboratory), San Raffaele Hospital, Italian National Institute of Health and EUROTB/RIVM.