Zoonosi

Tanto va la gatta al lardo che ci lascia lo zampino

Di Noto F, Scalzo S, Ganci I, Melfa M, La Cagnina G, Palermo RL, Cipolla D

2024/7 — pag. 137-138 — DOI

The case describes a seven-year-old boy with a painful swelling in the right armpit. After excluding a neoplastic condition and noting recent contact with cats, Cat Scratch Disease was diagnosed, confirmed by positive serology for Bartonella henselae...

Chikungunya e Dengue: tutta colpa di una zanzara

Villani A, Russo R

2024/4 — pag. 68-74 — DOI

Arboviruses are zoonoses caused by viruses transmitted by many arthropod vectors, included mosquitoes. In Italy, Arboviruses can cause both imported and native infections, with different clinical manifestations. Therefore, they should always be consi...

Gestione del contatto con animali nei bambini oncoematologici

Fiumana G, Botta D, Dalla Porta MF, Macchi S, Soncini E, Santaniello A, Paciello O, Cellini M, Cesaro S

2023/4 — pag. 61-69 — DOI

Contact with animals in oncohaematological children is associated with many benefits, but the risk of contracting zoonosis, even if low, must be taken into consideration. To evaluate awareness on this topic a survey between the Italian paediatric onc...

Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae: di cosa si tratta?

Brienza C, Imperatore A, Tierno E, Nunziata F

2022/4 — pag. 89-90 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 7-month-old infant who presented with high fever and fussiness. The blood culture reveals a rare form of bloodstream infection sustained by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, a Gram-positive bacillum that may affect a wide ...

E se il gatto non ci mette lo “zampino”?

A. Pirrone, M. Copertino, C. Pierobon

2013/4 — pag. 251-253

Un caso di bartonellosi viscerale in paziente immunocompetente

R. Grazioli, R. Milani Capialbi, F. Marchetti, A. Bettinelli

2008/6 — pag. 395-397

We report a case of a 5-year-old immunocompetent boy with persistent fever and a diffuse enlargement of laterocervical lymph nodes. We performed first an abdominal ultrasonography and then a CT showed multiple hepatosplenic abscesses. Later the f...

Malattia da graffio di gatto: una piccola epidemia

E. Mazzoleni, B. Loru, E. Prandi, E. Pelizzari

2001/10 — pag. 697-697

Report of a small epidemic (4 cases of typical, but clinically severe lymphadenopathy, one case associated with hepatic granuloma; all of them appeared in a 2-month period). It might suggest a feline epidemic caused by a particularly virulent stra...