Submit an Article > Register > Login >

Annali

dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità

Search
Vol. 56 No. 1 (2020)
Original Articles
2020-03-25
Share on

Malaria in pediatric age in the Piedmont Region

Authors

Enrico Finale , Pierangela Ferrero , Silvano Andorno , Alessia De Simone , Alberto Ponili , Alberto Borraccino , Andrea Guala

Keywords: Malaria, Malaria pediatric

Abstract

Introduction. Pediatric malaria, even in countries considered as free as Italy, is an important problem of public health because children have a high variability of the clinical picture. The objective of this brief note is to determine the incidence of pediatric malaria in the Piedmont Region during the period 1989-2015.
Materials and methods. All cases of pediatric malaria notified were considered thanks to the regional information flow over the period 1989-2015. Cases of congenital malaria, unconfirmed malaria cases, and aged 14 and older were excluded of the study.
Results. In Piedmont in the period 1989-2015, pediatric malaria accounts for 8.8% of the total (172/1946 cases). 74% of patients are of foreign nationality, to which must be added the 14% represented by those born in Italy from foreign parents, while it is 100% the fraction of patients who have made a trip to the abroad. The notification of cases is greater in the autumn months. Only 7.6% of the sample carried out a complete chemoprophylaxis. In 79% of cases, the primary care physician advised chemoprophylaxis on trips to endemic areas.
Conclusions. At present, lacking an effective vaccine, the prevention and implementation of standard precautions such as chemoprophylaxis, represent the safest strategy to put into practice to eradicate the disease especially for the groups at greater risk as visiting friends and relatives.

Downloads

PDF
Authors

Enrico Finale - Dipartimento Materno-Infantile, Ospedale Castelli, ASL Verbano-Cusio-Ossola http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-1606

Pierangela Ferrero - SeREMI - Servizio di Riferimento Regionale di Epidemiologia e Malattie Infettive

Silvano Andorno - Dipartimento di Statistica Università del Piemonte Orientale UPO

Alessia De Simone - Dipartimento Materno-Infantile, Ospedale Castelli, ASL Verbano-Cusio-Ossola

Alberto Ponili - Dipartimento Materno-Infantile, Ospedale Castelli, ASL Verbano-Cusio-Ossola

Alberto Borraccino - Dipartimento di Scienze della Sanità Pubblica e Pediatriche, Università degli Studi di Torino.

Andrea Guala - Dipartimento Materno-Infantile, Ospedale Castelli, ASL Verbano-Cusio-Ossola

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

How to Cite
Finale, E., Ferrero, P., Andorno, S., De Simone, A., Ponili, A., Borraccino, A., & Guala, A. (2020). Malaria in pediatric age in the Piedmont Region. Annali dell’Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, 56(1), 72–75. Retrieved from https://annali.iss.it/index.php/anna/article/view/904
  • Abstract viewed - 418 times
  • PDF downloaded - 149 times