Incidence of pertussis in the province of Pesaro-Urbino (Italy).

Pertussis vaccination coverage in the Marche region is one of the lowest in Italy, with the province of Pesaro-Urbino remaining stable below 95% coverage since at least 2013. In this paper, we retrospectively analyzed all whooping cough notification cards arriving at the prevention department of the Area Vasta 1 Health Office in the Marche region and relating to the Pesaro-Urbino province (Italy). Between 2012 and 2017, there were 28 reported cases of pertussis with a peak in 2016 (11 cases, of which seven were in Urbino).

Report on three cases of pertussis in the Urbino area (Italy).

Pertussis is a contagious, infectious disease that affects mainly children and is caused by Bordetella pertussis. The pertussis vaccine has changed the epidemiology of the disease up to the point when it almost vanished, with a minimum number of cases recorded in Italy (2008) when vaccination coverage was 97%. For the same reason the natural history of the disease was also modified.

[Prenatal screening and the prevalence of hepatitis B infection in pregnant women in the Marche Region (Central Italy): differences between ethnic groups].

Objectives: to evaluate the epidemiology of hepatitis B infection in pregnant women living in the Marche Region (Central Italy), according to the Country of origin.

Design: cross sectional observational study conducted from May 2011 to April 2012, which involved 13 of the 15 birthing centres in the Marche region.

Setting And Participants: serological data of hepatitis B infection were obtained during the execution of mandatory prenatal screening.

[Congenital and perinatal infections in the Marche region (Italy): an epidemiological study and differences between ethnic groups].

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the epidemiological data regarding congenital and perinatal infections in the Marche region to verify the existence of differences in relation to maternal country of origin. This prospective study was conducted from May 2001 to April 2012, and it involved all the maternity units of the Marche region. A total of 10232 pregnant women were included, 25.