| universal childhood immunisation against streptococcus pneumoniae: the five-year experience of liguria region, italy. | liguria was the first italian administrative region, since 2003, to actively recommend free-of-charge immunisation, of all infants, with heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (pcv-7), within a research pilot-project. vaccination coverage among infants rapidly increased from 42.8% in 2003 to 83.3% in 2004, progressively reaching levels of 93.4% in 2007. two scientific projects have been carried out, aimed: (i) to assess the immunogenicity of pcv-7 and of a hexavalent vaccine diphtheria-tetan ... | 2009 | 19200823 |
| bacterial isolates and cigarette smoking in patients with chronic bronchitis: results from an italian multicenter survey. | patients who were cigarette smokers suffering exacerbations of chronic bronchitis were examined in eight outpatient clinics in five regions of italy, three from the south (campania, 82 patients; sicily, 82 patients; and puglia, 29 patients) and two from north (lombardy, 33 patients; and liguria, 50 patients). haemophilus influenzae was the most frequently isolated bacterium in the patients' sputum (in 30% of the total group), followed by streptococcus pneumoniae (in 20%), staphylococcus aureus ( ... | 1990 | 2112984 |