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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...

Wilson Wilson Wilson

Carciofi A, Pugliese F, D'alba I, Coccia P, Lionetti ME, Gatti S

2025/5 — pag. 120-121 — DOI

A 13-year-old boy was admitted with abdominal pain, vomiting and unexplained cytopoenia. Initial investigations showed splenomegaly, ileal wall thickening, hepatic structural alterations and persistent pancytopenia. Extensive infectious, haematologic...

"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...

La B12 c'è ma non funziona

Vitale R.

2024/7 — pag. 468-470 — DOI

The paper reports the typical case and clinic of a defect in B12 metabolism. Such diseases, which are rare, mimic B12 intake or absorption deficits (crasis alterations, mixed neuropathy) but are distinguished first and foremost by the presence of nor...

Herpes simplex Nevi epidermici verrucosi lineari

2024/2 — pag. 128 — DOI

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...

La polmonite da adenovirus

Zago A, Benvenuto S

2023/4 — pag. 75-75 — DOI

The author describes the case of a 3-year-old boy presenting with cough and fever that had been persisting for seven days and not respondent to amoxicillin. Neutrophilic leukocytosis and diarrhoea were also present. The diagnosis of adenovirus infect...

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...

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. 224-225

Le complicanze neurologiche dell’influenza: la neuroinfluenza

A. Fumarola, P. Ricciardelli, C. Guiducci, P. Cenni, G. Turlà, F. Marchetti

2019/8 — pag. 203-205

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...

Latenza diagnostica in un adolescente con morbo di Crohn: esordio insidioso o diagnosi intempestiva?

A. Casertano, M. Martinelli, A. Staiano

2018/5

Cisti del rafe mediano Herpes zoster

2017/6 — pag. 398

Dolore addominale, iperplasia nodulare linfoide e… EBV

G. Papucci, V. Ragnoni

2017/4

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...

In un bambino con sintomi respiratori, ha senso fare una indagine sierologica o con PCR per il Mycoplasma pneumoniae?

R. Cavallo, G. Simeone

2014/7

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

Un percorso troppo breve

Antonio Pulella, Rocco Cavaliere, Angela Tisci, Marco Rabusin

2008/5 — pag. 319-321

A 10-year-old girl was admitted with a 3-month history of pain in her knee joints. The pain had been occasional, very short, particularly prominent at night, when she woke up and then fell asleep again. The knee joints were warm, but there was no li...

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...

Crostosità ricorrente Ostinata Herpes Negativa

M. Cutrone, M. Fontanin, F. Intini, G. Montesanto

2007/9

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...

Una bambina con artrite reumatoide sistemica e febbre: è una ricaduta?

C. Oretti, M. Maschio, M. Lazzerini

2004/9

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

Cellule fetali nelle eruzioni cutanee di donne in gravidanza: il microchimerismoEmaturia microscopica: un elemento di scarso rilievo clinicoUna rivisitazione della Chlamydia pneumoniaeLo streptococco b-emolitico gruppo A può persistere all'interno delle cellule del faringe?Ancora sull'Helicobacter pylori

G. Bartolozzi

1999/2

Progresso

F. Panizon

1997/2 — pag. 75-76