Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques

Febbre persistente, malessere, congiuntive e lieve cheilite: quando c’entra l’Adenovirus

Lorefice A, Troisi A, Fontijn S, Marchetti F.

2025/7 — pag. 465-466 — DOI

A 5-and-a-half-year-old child presents with a 10-day history of fever, upper respiratory tract inflammation, conjunctivitis and diarrhoea. Clinical examination reveals inflammatory signs in the pharyngeal, ocular and tympanic areas, but no rash or pe...

Alla ricerca della Salmonella...

Menconi G, Stera G, Virgili G, Balsamo C, Meli M, Congiu M, Ghizzi C

2025/5 — pag. 129-130 — DOI

Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovar typhi, is a potentially severe systemic infection, especially in endemic regions with poor sanitation. The paper reports the case of a 12-year-old girl returning from Pakistan with prolonged fever ...

"Amici per la pelle": un caso di leishmaniosi

Fantasia M, Vecchi M, Cavalleri L, Bruni F, Provenzi M

2025/4 — pag. 81-85 — DOI

Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by protozoa of the Leishmania genus, parasites of humans and several domestic and wild animals, and transmitted via vectors. The authors describe the case of an 18-month-old girl, presenting to the Emerge...

Le infezioni da enterovirus nel neonato e nel lattante

Sandoni M, Ciardo L, Tamburini C, Marrozzini L, Boncompagni A, Rossi C, Guidotti I, Garetti E, Rossi K, Lugli L, Iughetti L, Berardi A.

2023/7 — pag. 437-443 — DOI

Enteroviruses (EV) are a relevant source of infection in paediatric patients. The majority of cases concerns the neonatal period and the first months of life. Due to their extreme epidemiological fluctuations, molecular epidemiology is crucial to und...

Quando l’anemia viene da un’infezione da parvovirus

Tolomelli E, Legnani E, Grasso A

2023/3 — pag. 53-53 — DOI

The author describes the case of a 2-year-old boy presenting with aplastic anaemia due to documented parvovirus infection of the bone marrow without a specific seroconversion....

Quando la malaria tarda a farsi riconoscere: un’infezione da Plasmodium ovale

Polenzani I, Lisco L, Cozzolino M, Casolari S, Valenti S, Fontijn S, Uva A, Marchetti F.

2022/6 — pag. 381-385 — DOI

Plasmodium ovale is a cause of non-falciparum malaria infection that is endemic in tropical Western Africa. The life cycle of Plasmodium ovale includes hypnozoites, which are dormant stages in the liver. These stages can be reactivated after weeks, m...

Febbre di origine sconosciuta (FUO): approccio diagnostico attraverso un caso clinico

D. Ursi, S. Puzone, C. Strisciuglio

2020/8 — pag. 519-525 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 12-year-old female affected by ulcerative colitis and treated with double immunosuppressant therapy (methotrexate and infliximab). The patient presented with 7 day-lasting fever associated with pharyngotonsillar hypera...

Broncopolmonite e ulcere genitali da Mycoplasma pneumoniae: unico comune denominatore?

D. Gioè, J. Iacopelli

2020/8 — pag. 216-216 — DOI

Chi è il paraechovirus e perché bisogna tenerlo a mente

E. Cacciatore, S. Dal Bo, G. Vieni, C. Radice, L. Biserna, I. Bruno, V. Sambri, F. Marchetti

2019/9 — pag. 596-598

Encefalite da Herpes virus in una lattante

A. Fumarola, P. Ricciardelli, S. Dal Bo, I. Moneta, V. Rizzo, M. Stella, P. Cenni, F. Marchetti

2018/8

The paper presents the case of an infant with HSV-1 herpetic encephalitis. The clinical symptomatology, after contact with the virus and the development of typical vesicular lesions, is characterized by involvement of the central nervous system, with...

Uno più uno fa sempre due:una storia di bartonellosi viscerale

A. D’Adda, G. Ferrari, M.L. Melzi, G. Bovo, S. Foresti, A. Cavallero, R. Corso, A. Ciervo, F. Mancini, A. Biondi

2016/4 — pag. 255-258

Epatite acuta con colestasi da Parvovirus B19

S. Perrini, b. Guidi, P. Torelli, A. Forte

2015/2 — pag. 119-121

Few cases of acute hepatitis due to Parvovirus B19 are reported in the literature. The paper describes a case of acute cholestatic hepatitis due to Parvovirus B19 infection. Diagnosis was based on a positive serologic test (IgM) and on molecular dete...

Epatite acuta con colestasi da Parvovirus B19

S. Perrini, B. Guidi, P. Torelli, A. Forte

2015/2

Few cases of acute hepatitis due to Parvovirus B19 are reported in the literature. The paper describes a case of acute cholestatic hepatitis due to Parvovirus B19 infection. Diagnosis was based on a positive serologic test (IgM) and on molecular dete...

Un caso di meningite da EBV

M. Saruggia, F. Masciocchi, M. Calabria, A. Lazzerotti, S. Gasperini, A. Biondi

2014/6

Una tumefazione sternale da osteomielite

M. Giovannini, F. Pugliese, L. Casadio, F. Marchetti

2014/4 — pag. 257-259

Primary sternal osteomyelitis cases are rare. The etiological agents are those of osteomyelitis. In the case presented the hypothetical diagnosis was osteomyelitis caused by Kingella kingae, a pathogenic bacterium that is a frequent cause of osteomye...

Una tumefazione sternale da osteomielite

M. Giovannini, F. Pugliese, L. Casadio, F. Marchetti

2014/4

Primary sternal osteomyelitis cases are rare. The etiological agents are those of osteomyelitis. In the case presented the hypothetical diagnosis was osteomyelitis caused by Kingella kingae, a pathogenic bacterium that is a frequent cause of osteomye...

La polmonite virale

2012/3 — pag. 192-194

Nuovi patogeni respiratori

M. Don, M. Canciani

2010/6 — pag. 363-370

Acute respiratory infections represent the most common disease during childhood in both developing and developed countries and although the majority of these infections are limited to the upper respiratory tract, lower respiratory tract infections ...

Pisolo

A. Lambertini, M.T. Bartolini, A. Pini, S. Giovannini

2010/1 — pag. 51

Self help, test rapido, PCR Aspetti controversi sulla prevenzione del deficit divitamina D Uso dell’adrenalina nel croup Insicurezze e allergia L’incerto futuro del Servizio Sanitario Nazionale

2008/6 — pag. 353-357

Diagnosi neonatale di discinesia ciliare

E. Palumbo, G. Nasca, C. Malorgio, M. Branchi, G. Pellegrini

2008/2 — pag. 123-124

Primary ciliary dyskinesia is a rare, autosomal recessive genetic disease resulting from an abnormal ultra structural morphology of cilia. Such disease is rarely recognized in neonatal period. Recently, unexplained neonatal respiratory distress has b...

Gli stretti rapporti tra pediatra e genetista

P. Gasperini

2006/6 — pag. 347-350

Bambini a rischio di infezione verticale da HIV

R. Davanzo, J. Bua, M. Rabusin

2006/1 — pag. 32-37

In the last decade more children have been born from HIV-1 positive mothers because of a decreased risk of transmission due to a series of effective preventive measures, such as perinatal antiretroviral treatment, elective cesarean section, no breast...

Domande e risposte

2003/10 — pag. 681-682

L’allattamento al seno non protegge dalle allergie (leggere con buon senso)Igiene, animali e prevenzione dell’asmaEritromicina e stenosi pilorica: una confermaQuanto male fa lo sport? Le lesioni in bambini che praticano sport di gruppoParacetamolo per bocca o per via rettale?“Stop rickets campaign in England”: ma in che anno siamo?Splenectomie post-traumatiche: si deve risparmiareDanni da DES (dietilstilbestrolo): dalle nonne ai nipotiAntibiotici: non serve la rotazione nelle nurseryUna PCR rapida per lo screening dello streptococco di gruppo B

2002/8 — pag. 485-486

Progresso

F. Panizon

1997/2 — pag. 75-76