[Immigration and hepatitis B virus in Italy. Current state and perspectives].
This work underlines as many people arrive in our country by migratory phenomena and as many of them come by areas, particularly Sub-Sahara Africa, endemic for HBV infection. This could determine a higher prevalence of this infection in our area. The most part of subjects could be infected by a non-D genotype (genotype D is prevalent in Italy) characterized by a different natural history and response to antiviral therapies with the necessity of a different clinical and therapeutic approach.
Clinica Malattie Infettive, Università, Foggia. emipalu2002@yahoo.it
Emilio
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Palumbo
D017954:Africa South of the Sahara / Q000208:ethnology; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence