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Measles Immunization Status of Health Care Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring Factors Associated with Lack of Immunization According to the Health Belief Model

Vaccines, 2023
Suboptimal levels of measles vaccination coverage make Italy a country where the circulation of the virus is still endemic. In the past decade, several nosocomial outbreaks of measles occurred in Italy that rapidly spread the infection among large ...
Vincenzo Restivo, Alessandra Fallucca, Federica Trapani, Palmira Immordino, Giuseppe Calamusa, Alessandra Casuccio   +5 more
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Knowledge, Attitudes, Perceptions and Vaccination Acceptance/Hesitancy among the Community Pharmacists of Palermo’s Province, Italy: From Influenza to COVID-19

Vaccines, 2022
In Italy, following the start of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination campaign, community pharmacies (CPs) were recruited on a voluntary basis in order to administer COVID-19 vaccines as part of their activities. The aim of the present study was to investigate the
Claudio Costantino, Giorgio Graziano, Nicole Bonaccorso, Arianna Conforto, Livia Cimino, Martina Sciortino, Francesco Scarpitta, Chiara Giuffrè, Salvatore Mannino, Mario Bilardo, Caterina Ledda, Francesco Vitale, Vincenzo Restivo, Walter Mazzucco   +13 more
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Trends in epidemiology: the role of denominator fluctuation in population based estimates Running title: Denominator fluctuation in epidemiology

AIMS Public Health, 2021
Background: Population estimates are of paramount importance for calculating occurrence and association measures although they can be affected by problems of accuracy and completeness.
Emanuele Amodio , Maurizio Zarcone, Alessandra Casuccio, rancesco Vitale   +3 more
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Hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Sicily from 2008 to 2021: clinical features and predictors of severity

Italian Journal of Pediatrics
Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of bronchiolitis, resulting in 3.6 million hospitalizations for acute lower respiratory tract infections and 101,400 deaths in children under 5 years of age worldwide each year. In Europe,
Anna Condemi, Domenico Marrali, Chiara Albano, Giulia Linares, Valeria Garbo, Giovanni Boncori, Laura Venuti, Antonio Cascio, Claudia Colomba   +8 more
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Real-life experience on COVID-19 and seasonal influenza vaccines co-administration in the vaccination hub of the University Hospital of Palermo, Italy

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
With the pandemic, there has been a global reduction in influenza virus circulation, with WHO reporting, during 2021/22 season, laboratory testing positivity rate for influenza of less than 3%.
Claudio Costantino, Walter Mazzucco, Arianna Conforto, Livia Cimino, Alessia Pieri, Sara Rusignolo, Nicole Bonaccorso, Floriana Bravatà, Laura Pipitone, Martina Sciortino, Marcello Tocco, Elena Zarcone, Giorgio Graziano, Fabio Tramuto, Carmelo Massimo Maida, Alessandra Casuccio, Francesco Vitale   +16 more
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How much does a liter of donor human milk cost? Cost analysis of operating a human milk bank in Italy

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2022
Background To date, 40 Human Milk Banks (HMB) have been established in Italy; however, recent cost analysis data for operating an HMB in Italy are not available in the literature. Methods This study was a cross-sectional study performed at “Bambino Gesù”
Guglielmo Salvatori, Domenico Umberto De Rose, Maria Clemente, Cristina Gentili, Giovanni Paride Verardi, Patrizia Amadio, Maria Paola Reposi, Pietro Bagolan, Andrea Dotta   +8 more
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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo, Catherine S. Palmer, Jacqueline M. Kimmey   +2 more
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It does matter where you come from: mothers’ experiences of childbirth in midwife obstetric units, Tshwane, South Africa

Reproductive Health, 2017
Background Health professionals are striving to improve respectful care for women, but they fall short in the domains of effective communication, respectful and dignified care and emotional support during labour.
Sarie J. Oosthuizen, Anne-Marie Bergh, Robert C. Pattinson, Jackie Grimbeek   +3 more
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Granulicatella spp., a Causative Agent of Infective Endocarditis in Children

Pathogens, 2022
Granulicatella spp. are non-motile, non-sporulating, facultatively anaerobic Gram-positive cocci. Throughout the literature, these organisms have been referred to by several names, such as “nutritionally deficient streptococci”, “vitamin-B dependent ...
Chiara Albano, Sara Bagarello, Salvatore Giordano, Maria Fiorella Sanfilippo, Calogero Comparato, Giuseppe Scardino, Valeria Garbo, Giovanni Boncori, Anna Condemi, Antonio Cascio, Claudia Colomba   +10 more
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Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo, Jonah Anderson, Emilie Dinh Vedrenne, Noël Yeh Martín, Jette Lengefeld   +4 more
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