Spaziante, Martina
Agresta, Alessandro
D’Amato, Maurizio
De Carli, Gabriella https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3972-8301
Tonziello, Gilda
Vantaggio, Valentina
Malatesta, Giorgio Nicolò
Girardi, Enrico
Barca, Alessandra
Scognamiglio, Paola
Vairo, Francesco
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministero della Salute (Ricerca Corrente Linea 1 Progetto 3 – INMI L. Spallanzani I.R.C.C.S. Rome, Italy.)
Article History
Received: 15 November 2024
Accepted: 26 January 2025
First Online: 4 February 2025
Declarations
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: For studies of this type, approval from an Ethical Committee and formal consent are not required because patients’ information, which are pseudonymized, derive from Regional surveillance systems for infectious diseases, all deriving from regulatory provisions (Decree of Ministry of Health 15 December 1990, “Information system of infectious diseases” and 7 March 2022, “Revision of infectious disease surveillance system).
: The absence of informed consent (and an evaluation by an Ethics Committee) is legitimated by Regulation (EU) 2016/679; Protection of Personal Data, Authorization 15 December 2016 n. 9/2016; Legislative Decree 10 August 2018, n. 101.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.