Reported is the incidence of @entity116 in the Marches Region of Italy for the period 1992-95. Data were obtained from both the regional public health committee's notification forms for @entity166 and from hospital clinical records. A total of 36 cases were examined, comprising 7 males (19.4%) and 29 females. The raw annual incidence was 6.3 per million population; the standardized incidence for females was four times greater than that for males (9.2 and 2.4 per million population annually, respectively). The @entity1 ' ages varied from 31 years to 88 years (median, 73.5 years). The incidence among subjects older than 65 years was approximately ten times greater than that among younger individuals. Chronic wounds, such as @entity75 , represented the site of @entity116 @entity281 in 14.3% of cases whose @entity281 entry point was identified. Treatment of the 36 cases required a total of 1239 hospital days, of which 58.7% were in intensive care and 29.6% were in @entity166 departments. The raw annual mortality rate for the period considered was 0.7 per million population; the case-fatality ratio was 11%. The results of our study confirm the limits of the current Italian immunization programmes, which exclude a large portion of the population from antitetanus protection.

Epidemiology of XXXX in the Marches Region of Italy, 1992-95.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity75 :: ('MESH:D001927', 'Disease') :: ['trophic lesions'] @entity281 :: ('MESH:D007239', 'Disease') :: ['infection'] @entity116 :: ('MESH:D013746', 'Disease') :: ['tetanus'] @entity166 :: ('MESH:D003141', 'Disease') :: ['infectious diseases']
@entity116 :: (MESH:D013746,Disease) :: ['tetanus']
