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West Nile Virus Surveillance in 2013 via Mosquito Screening in Northern Italy and the Influence of Weather on Virus Circulation
- M. Calzolari, A. Pautasso, +34 authors G. Capelli
- Medicine, Biology
- PloS one
- 21 October 2015
West Nile virus (WNV) is a recently re-emerged health problem in Europe. In Italy, an increasing number of outbreaks of West Nile disease, with occurrences of human cases, have been reported since… Expand
Detection of Invasive Borrelia burgdorferi Strains in North‐Eastern Piedmont, Italy
- M. D. Pintore, L. Ceballos, +10 authors C. Casalone
- Biology, Medicine
- Zoonoses and public health
- 1 August 2015
Following reports of human cases of Lyme borreliosis from the Ossola Valley, a mountainous area of Piemonte, north‐western Italy, the abundance and altitudinal distribution of ticks, and infection of… Expand
Mosquito surveillance in northwestern Italy to monitor the occurrence of tropical vector-borne diseases.
- A. Pautasso, R. Desiato, +12 authors C. Casalone
- Biology, Medicine
- Transboundary and emerging diseases
- 1 November 2013
Mosquito-borne arboviruses (MBV) represent an important health problem, causing diseases and deaths both in human and animals mainly in tropical and subtropical countries. In recent years, they have… Expand
Cetacean strandings in Italy: an unusual mortality event along the Tyrrhenian Sea coast in 2013.
- C. Casalone, S. Mazzariol, +18 authors S. Caracappa
- Biology, Medicine
- Diseases of aquatic organisms
- 23 April 2014
An unusual mortality event involving cetaceans, mainly striped dolphins Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833), occurred along the Tyrrhenian Sea coast of Italy during the first 3 mo of 2013. Based on… Expand
Molecular characterization of flaviviruses from field-collected mosquitoes in northwestern Italy, 2011–2012
- F. Rizzo, F. Cerutti, +10 authors M. L. Mandola
- Biology, Medicine
- Parasites & Vectors
- 26 August 2014
BackgroundThe genus Flavivirus comprises several mosquito-borne species, including the zoonotic pathogens West Nile and Usutu virus, circulating in animals and humans in Italy since 1998. Due to its… Expand
Mediterranean Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus) Threatened by Dolphin MorbilliVirus.
- S. Mazzariol, C. Centelleghe, +9 authors G. Di Guardo
- Medicine, Biology
- Emerging infectious diseases
- 1 February 2015
During 2011-2013, dolphin morbillivirus was molecularly identified in 4 stranded fin whales from the Mediterranean Sea. Nucleoprotein, phosphoprotein, and hemagglutinin gene sequences of the… Expand
The Degree of One Health Implementation in the West Nile Virus Integrated Surveillance in Northern Italy, 2016
- G. Paternoster, L. Tomassone, +7 authors B. Vogler
- Geography, Medicine
- Front. Public Health
- 5 September 2017
West Nile virus (WNV) is endemic in the Po valley area, Northern Italy, and within the legal framework of the national plan for the surveillance of human vector-borne diseases, WNV surveillance has… Expand
Retrospective seroepidemiological investigations against Morbillivirus, Toxoplasma gondii and Brucella spp. in cetaceans stranded along the Italian coastline (1998-2014).
- Francesca Profeta, C. E. Di Francesco, +16 authors G. Di Guardo
- Biology, Medicine
- Research in veterinary science
- 1 August 2015
This study reports the results of seroepidemiological investigations carried out against Morbillivirus, Toxoplasma gondii and Brucella spp. on blood serum samples collected from 70 cetacean specimens… Expand
First report of the invasive mosquito Aedes koreicus (Diptera: Culicidae) and of its establishment in Liguria, northwest Italy
- M. Ballardini, S. Ferretti, +14 authors W. Mignone
- Biology, Medicine
- Parasites & Vectors
- 5 July 2019
BackgroundInvasive mosquito species (IMS) of the genus Aedes are a cause of increasing concern in Europe owing to their ability to vector important human viral diseases. Entomological surveillance to… Expand
Detection of morbillivirus infection by RT-PCR RFLP analysis in cetaceans and carnivores.
- Federica Verna, F. Giorda, +12 authors M. Goria
- Medicine, Biology
- Journal of virological methods
- 1 September 2017
Morbillivirus genus comprises several members related to specific hosts, such as canine distemper virus (CDV) and cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) in which the dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) is included.… Expand