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. 1987 Sep;3(3):302-7.
doi: 10.1007/BF00149740.

Immunity to tetanus among Italians born between 1956 and 1963

F Rosmini  1 , G Gentili, M Wirz, C Collotti, A Panà, I Terzi, S Conti, P Pasquini
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Immunity to tetanus among Italians born between 1956 and 1963

F Rosmini et al. Eur J Epidemiol. 1987 Sep.

Abstract

Systematic mandatory immunization of children against tetanus begun in Italy in 1968. Preceding birth cohorts, accounting for almost 80% of present Italian population, were poorly immune or totally non-immune; around 90% of cases of tetanus occurring in Italy in recent years are observed among them. In a national sample of 4770 young males born between 1956 and 1963, about one third was not protected. Prevalence of non-immune subjects was greater in the Southern Regions and the Islands, in rural areas, among the unemployed, among the older birth cohorts.

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