Publications
| invasive meningococcal disease in the veneto region of italy: a capture-recapture analysis for assessing the effectiveness of an integrated surveillance system. | epidemiology of neisseria meningitidis has been changing since the introduction of universal vaccination programmes against meningococcal serogroup c (menc) and meningococcal serogroup b (menb) has now become dominant. this study aimed to analyse the cases reported in institutional data recording systems to estimate the burden of invasive meningococcal diseases (imds) and assess the effectiveness of surveillance in veneto region (italy). | 2017 | 28465304 |
| 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 |