Foodborne Diseases

Cluster familiare di infezione da Listeria monocytogenes

Cinquatti R, Acucella G, Emmig U, Rossi C, Canale C, Folgori G, Guala A

2022/5 — pag. 102-105 — DOI

Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive facultative intracellular bacterium; it is transmitted to humans through the ingestion of contaminated food. Patients are typically immunosuppressed individuals, pregnant women, newborns and elderly people. I...

Sgombroide

Da Lozzo P

2021/5 — pag. 155-156 — DOI

The Authors described a case of scombroid poisoning in a 14-year-old atopic boy, initially misdiagnosed as allergic urticaria. Scombroid poisoning is a poorly known type of food poisoning due to the presence of histamine in spoiled fish of the Scombr...

Alcune malattie trasmesse da alimenti da non dimenticare

Bonadies A, Corvino F, Rosa M, Ruggiero L, Apicella A, Tipo V, Ponticiello E

2021/3 — pag. 167-172 — DOI

Foodborne diseases (FBDs) are still a major public health problem. They are often caused by toxic sub-stances due to incorrect food storage. The paper describes three cases of FBD recently observed: the first concerns the so-called scombroid syndrome...

Un caso di disfagia e diplopia: quale diagnosi?

A. Derosa, C. Di Lucca, C. Figliuolo, F. Forte, V. Targiani, R.A. Taccardi

2017/1 — pag. 57-58

Botulism is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin produced by a Clostridium strain, most often Clostridium botulinum. The paper presents the case of a 13- year-old girl admitted to our Paediatric Department with double visi...

Un caso di disfagia e diplopia: quale diagnosi?

A. Derosa, C. Di Lucca, C. Figliuolo, F. Forte, V. Targiani, R.A. Taccardi

2017/1

Botulism is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin produced by a Clostridium strain, most often Clostridium botulinum. The paper presents the case of a 13-year-old girl admitted to our Paediatric Department with double vision an...

E se la puntura non si vede?

M. Massaro, V. Guastalla, A. Delise

2014/9

La cena delle beffe : un’epidemia streptococcica sui generis

I. Merisi

1998/2 — pag. 108