Zoonoses

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. 468-470 — 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...

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. 260-262 — 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...

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 ...

Sepsi da Yersinia enterocolitica nel lattante: quando pensarci?

Pionelli MG, Bianchi S, Castoldi F, Lista G

2022/2 — pag. 35-38 — DOI

The paper describes the case report of a sepsis due to Yersinia enterocolitica in an ex preterm infant of 32 weeks’ gestational age with birth weight of 1,220 g. The infant was admitted at 39 weeks postconceptual age to the emergency room for fever, ...

Salmonelle da compagnia

Brienza C, Greco R, Della Rocca MT, Imperatore A, Nunziata F.

2021/10 — pag. 658-659 — DOI

The paper describes the case of 21-month-old child with prolonged fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. After detecting non-typhoidal Salmonella in his stools, medical history has revealed an unexpected source of the infection....

Ebola: se il panico ruba il posto della verità

2014/9 — pag. 559-561

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...

Il punto sulla “mucca pazza”

S. Alessandri, A. Martini, P. Campanile, A. Giorgetti

1998/3 — pag. 179-183

The Authors review the existing evidence about the "mad cow" issue. Hypothesis on etiologic agents, transmission and diffusion patterns are illustrated. Similarities with other prion-dependent diseases are stressed. The risks for humans in view ...