Family Pediatrician and Public Health collaboration, an alliance to increase vaccination coverage: an experience with MenB vaccination in Italy.

Background: Invasive Meningococcal Disease is a severe disease mainly affecting infants and young children. Most infections are caused by serogroups A, B, C, W, X, and Y. In the last 10 years, serogroup B has been the main cause of Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Europe.

[The correlation between psittacosis-ornithosis and the immune status in childhood: apropos 5 cases].

The authors studied 5 children affected with a pneumopathy by Chlamydia psittaci. They discuss the effects of a transitory immunodeficiency relative to NK cells in predisposing little patients to the infective disease.

[Clinico-epidemiological considerations of 30 cases of pulmonitis and pleuropulmonitis in childhood].

The authors studied 30 children affected with pneumonia or pleuropneumonia. They point out some clinical and epidemiological features pertinent to the pathology examined.