Immigrazione ed HBV in Italia: Stato attuale e prospettive future

This work evidences that with migratory phenomena many people arrive in our country and many of them come by areas, particularly sub-saharian Africa, endemic for HBV infection. This could be determine an increment in prevalence of this infection in our area. The most part of subjects could be infected by a non-D genotype (genotype D is the prevalent in Italy) characterized by a different natural history and response to antiviral therapies with the necessity of a different clinical and therapeutic approach.