Sorveglianza della mortalità infantile nella provincia di Palermo. Dati prelminari.

Students’ social networks and vaccination behaviour in Italian junior high schools: preliminary results from the "VacciniAmo le Scuole" project.

Students; social networks; vaccination; behavior; high schools

Application of Lean Six Sigma methodology to a school based immunization project in Italy.

Genotyping of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 strains isolated in Northern Sicily, Italy.

During a three-year period, from April 2002 to May 2005, one hundred-forty-seven samples, taken from technical systems of water distribution at point of use, were repeatedly collected at six different sites in Northern Sicily and assayed for the presence of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 and serogroups 2 to 14. At the first samplings, the water distribution systems of all the sites were heavily contaminated, and disinfection treatments by the superheat and flush method were therefore performed. Treatments were always successful against L. pneumophila sg.1, but only in a few cases against all other serogroups. Eighty-six strains of L. pneumophila sg. 1, isolated from 26 of these samples,…

Introduction and prolonged circulation of G12 rotaviruses in Sicily

SUMMARYGenotype G12 strains are now considered to be the sixth most prevalent human rotaviruses worldwide. In two Sicilian cities, Palermo and Messina, surveillance of rotavirus circulation performed since 1985 and 2009, respectively, did not detect G12 strains until 2012. From 2012 to 2014 rotavirus infection was detected in 29·7% of 1647 stool samples collected from children admitted for acute gastroenteritis to three Sicilian hospitals in Palermo, Messina and Ragusa. In 2012, G12P[8] was first detected in Palermo and then in Messina where it represented the second most frequent genotype (20% prevalence) after G1P[8]. Thereafter, G12 strains continued to circulate in Sicily, showing a mar…

Sorveglianza della mortalità infantile nella Provincia di Palermo

Improvement in vaccination knowledge among health students following an integrated extra curricular intervention, an explorative study in the University of Palermo

Summary Introduction. Vaccination coverages threaten to decrease because of false beliefs in their unsafety and inefficacy. Therefore formation of future health-care workers on this topic is fundamental to deal with any doubt and to promote active immunization among general population. Methods. In order to assess health-care students' knowledge about vaccination before an integrated seminar on this topic, and to evaluate their improvement after the educational intervention, an integrated educational intervention was held by a multidisciplinary team. Before and after the seminar, 118 students of medicine and biology schools at Palermo University were asked to answer 10 multiple-choice questi…

IL ROLE PLAY AL SERVIZIO DELLA PROMOZIONE DELLA SALUTE TRA GLI STUDENTI DELLE SCUOLE MEDIE: IL PROGETTO PILOTA “VACCINIAMO LE SCUOLE”.

Role play; promozione salute; vaccinazioni

Seroepidemiologic research and hygienic-sanitary evaluation about human and animal brucellosis in Palermo province