Publications

[ticks and the pediatrician].	the match between ticks and pediatricians in italy is usually a seasonal event related to the spring and summer trips and to the increasing of outdoor activity that sun and warm weather allow, both for children and ticks. so cared parents reach emergencies asking for tick removal but more often after the tick has yet been removed by empirical manoeuvres and after the killing and the destruction of the "enemy". we have scheduled, in the years 2002-2003, the 167 children that reached our unit for ...	2004	15305698
[monitoring of canine leishmaniasis in northern italy: an update from a scientific network].	canine leishmaniasis (canl) due to leishmania infantum is a disease of great veterinary importance and a serious public health problem. in humans, l. infantum causes visceral (vl) and cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) and the distribution of vl overlaps that of canl. currently, vl is considered by who as an emerging zoonosis in southern europe. the dog is the only domestic reservoir of the infection and phlebotomine sandflies are the only proven vectors of leishmaniasis for dogs and humans. canl is e ...	2004	15305715
echinococcus multilocularis in north italy.	alveolar echinococcosis is a zoonotic infection caused by the metacestode of the tapeworm echinococcus multilocularis. fox populations living in the alpine regions of italy had been considered free from this parasite until 2002, when two infected foxes were detected in bolzano province (trentino alto adige region) near austrian border. a modified nested pcr analysis was used to detect e. multilocularis dna in faecal samples belonging to red fox populations from five italian regions. a total of 5 ...	2006	16881394
risk assessment for canine leishmaniasis spreading in the north of italy.	the incidence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis has not only been recognized but is, in fact, increasing in territories of northern continental italy previously regarded as non-endemic. recent findings of sporadic autochthonous canine infections and the presence of phlebotomine vectors in some provinces of north-eastern italy have stimulated risk assessment for the spreading of leishmaniasis in the autonomous province of bolzano-south tyrol, the northernmost territory of the italian eastern alp ...	2009	19908194