Economic Burden of Human Papillomavirus-Related Diseases in Italy

Gianluca Baio; Alessandro Capone; Andrea Marcellusi; Francesco Saverio Mennini; Giampiero Favato

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049699

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Economic Burden of Human Papillomavirus-Related Diseases in Italy

Gianluca Baio,

Affiliations Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Biostatistics Unit, Department of Statistics, University of Milano–Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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Alessandro Capone,

Affiliation Institute of Leadership and Management in Health (ILMH), Kingston University London, London, United Kingdom
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Andrea Marcellusi,

Affiliation CEIS Sanità (CHEM – Centre for Health Economics and Management), Faculty of Economics, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Francesco Saverio Mennini,

Affiliations Institute of Leadership and Management in Health (ILMH), Kingston University London, London, United Kingdom, CEIS Sanità (CHEM – Centre for Health Economics and Management), Faculty of Economics, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Giampiero Favato

* E-mail: g.favato@kingston.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Leadership and Management in Health (ILMH), Kingston University London, London, United Kingdom
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Economic Burden of Human Papillomavirus-Related Diseases in Italy

Gianluca Baio,
Alessandro Capone,
Andrea Marcellusi,
Francesco Saverio Mennini,
Giampiero Favato

Published: November 21, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049699

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Papilloma virus vaccines in Italy

Posted by zighinì on 04 Apr 2013 at 20:45 GMT

Following the hard commentary reported, we confirm that in Italy also the bivalent vaccine is used, depending on which one wins a local tender. So, we wonder why the Authors claimed that only the quadrivalent vaccine is used for campaigning in Italy.

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