The morbidity and mortality rates of viral hepatitis A, B and Delta have dramatically dropped in Italy during the last decades. Thanks to the general improvements in hygiene and sanitation, hepatitis A has shifted from a high to an intermediate/low endemicity status. Vaccination against hepatitis A is recommended to people at increased risk, including travellers to endemic areas, military personnel and individuals at occupational risk. The implementation of universal anti-hepatitis B vaccination of infants and adolescents has resulted in a dramatic decline in disease burden and in the carrier rate. An additional benefit of hepatitis B vaccination is that hepatitis Delta has also substantially declined.
The changing face of the epidemiology of type A, B, and D viral hepatitis in Italy, following the implementation of vaccination / L. Romano’, S. Paladini, C. Tagliacarne, A. Zappa, A.R. Zanetti. - In: VACCINE. - ISSN 0264-410X. - 27:25-26(2009), pp. 3439-3442.
The changing face of the epidemiology of type A, B, and D viral hepatitis in Italy, following the implementation of vaccination
L. Romano’Primo
;S. PaladiniSecondo
;C. Tagliacarne;A. ZappaPenultimo
;A.R. ZanettiUltimo
2009
Abstract
The morbidity and mortality rates of viral hepatitis A, B and Delta have dramatically dropped in Italy during the last decades. Thanks to the general improvements in hygiene and sanitation, hepatitis A has shifted from a high to an intermediate/low endemicity status. Vaccination against hepatitis A is recommended to people at increased risk, including travellers to endemic areas, military personnel and individuals at occupational risk. The implementation of universal anti-hepatitis B vaccination of infants and adolescents has resulted in a dramatic decline in disease burden and in the carrier rate. An additional benefit of hepatitis B vaccination is that hepatitis Delta has also substantially declined.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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