Hepatitis B in Italy: Where we are ten y
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Alfonso Mele; Tommaso Stroffolini; Alessandro R. Zanetti
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract In Italy, a program of vaccination against hepatitis B targeted at the immunisation of persons at high risk began in 1983. In 1991, vaccination became mandatory for all newborns and adolescents. Since then, the vaccine has been given to more than 10 million children, with an outstanding