Publications

impact of a regional hib vaccination programme in italy.	in the veneto region of italy, a coverage of 26% for haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) primary vaccination in 1-year-old children plus a 31-53% catch-up coverage in children 1-4 years of age resulted in a 91% reduction of hib invasive disease in children <5 years of age. these data suggest that vaccination of older children can contribute substantially to herd immunity, even in settings where primary vaccination is low. since a single hib vaccine dose is efficacious in preventing hib invasive ...	2002	11803057
experience of vaccination against invasive bacterial diseases in veneto region (north east italy).	the goal of this study was to describe and comment the experience of the veneto region in the bacterial invasive disease. vaccination coverage was 93% against pneumococcus and 95% against haemophilus influenzae type b. regard to meningococcus c the coverage rate was 90.1% in children, 81% at 6 years of age and 78.2% at 15 years. the preliminary data of an active surveillance of invasive bacterial diseases show that the streptoccoccus pneumoniae was the main agent involved and that its consequenc ...	2012	23240172