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Preventive Medicine 2018 Journal of Preventive Medicine
ISSN: 2572-5483 Page 27
July 16-17, 2018
London, UK
9th Edition of International Conference on
Preventive Medicine
& Public Health
Measles is targeted for elimination in Italy as in Word
Health Organization (WHO), but our country remains
one of the 14 endemic countries in WHO European Region. In
2017, Italy showed an unexpected increase of measles cases
in comparison of previous years. Two circulars were promptly
issued by national authorities to warn all regions: the first was
intended to recall recommendations on control measures,
the second one gave more specific guidelines regarding the
immunoglobulin administration. The aim of this work is to
investigate the seroprevalence and the immunity status in
health workers (PM) of our hospital in order to prevent new
possible infections during the work in the emergency units (EU).
We focused our attention on the first ten months of 2017. We
determined the immunity or susceptibility of our medical and
nurse staff through preventive medicine tests and we recorded
all the suspected and confirmed cases of positive measles
IgM admitted to the emergency unit. In EU we observed 73
suspected cases. Among them 36.98% (27 cases) were
immune (both women and men), while 10% of women (8) and
15.1% of men (11) were not immune. Among these cases 13
had positive IgM at the access: 3 women (4.1%) with a median
age of 31.33 yrs and 11 men (15%) with a median age of 32.54
yrs. None of the 40 workers who came into contact with these
13 cases contracted measles. Strengthening surveillance and
immunization coverage was the key to this successful result.
Biography
M Monari is the Director of Clinical Laboratory Analysis of Humanitas Re-
search Hospital and she is a contract Professor of two Italian University:
Humanitas University and Insubria University in Nurse degrees. She devel-
ops, in according with the hospital direction, different investigation studies
around topics of health and security of blood collections and datas commu-
nications. She has more than 45 poster published and 23 articles. She was
Editorial Board member for the Journal of Women’s Health and Reproductive
Medicine. She was also Cheif Director or several courses and congress and
speaker to them.
Measles virus: A focus on a selected northen Italy population.
Between emergency unit access and immune status of hospital
staff, where is the balance during 2017 epidemia?
M Monari1, P Bianchi, M Motta, F Maura, B Barbieri, E Azzolini, M Pedretti and L Ferretti
1Istituto Clinico Humanitas - IRCCS, Italy
M Monari et al., J Prev Med 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2572-5483-C1-002
Figure 1: Confirmed cases of EU and PM divided in class of ages.