Sentinel surveillance of sexually transmitted diseases in Italy

M Giuliani; B Suligoi; Collective the STD Surveillance Working Group

doi:10.2807/esm.03.06.00097-en

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Sentinel surveillance of sexually transmitted diseases in Italy
M Giuliani¹ , B Suligoi¹ , Collective the STD Surveillance Working Group²
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Affiliations: ¹ Centro Operativo AIDS, Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome Italy ² Members of the STD Surveillance Working group are listed at the beginning of the article

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Citation style for this article: Giuliani M, Suligoi B, the STD Surveillance Working Group Collective. Sentinel surveillance of sexually transmitted diseases in Italy. Euro Surveill. 1998;3(6):pii=97. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.03.06.00097-en

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Abstract

Statutory notifications suggest that the incidence of gonorrhoea and syphilis have fallen in the past 30 years in Italy, as in other developed countries. Nevertheless, during the 1980s, the annual notification rates in Italy were from 15 to 50 times lower