| serological investigations for some bacterial and viral pathogens in fallow deer (cervus dama) and wild boar (sus scrofa) of the san rossore preserve, tuscany, italy. | sera of 43 fallow deer (cervus dama) of the san rossore preserve (tuscany, italy) were examined for antibodies against eight pathogens; one proved positive for brucella sp., 21 for listeria monocytogenes, 34 for chlamydia psittaci, three for coxiella burnetii, one for infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus, 11 for parainfluenza-3 virus, 25 for bovine viral diarrhea virus and six for bovine respiratory syncytial virus. no age and sex difference in the positivity rates and titers was evidenced, w ... | 1988 | 2832622 |
| prevalence of toxoplasmosis among domestic and wild animals in the area of siena, italy. | | 1969 | 5768772 |
| isolation of encephalomyocarditis virus from dormice (myoxus glis) in italy. | two isolates of encephalomyocarditis (emc) virus (zrc 276ra/90 and zrc 292ra/90) were isolated from two dormice (myoxus glis) in tuscany, italy. the two isolates were lethal for laboratory mice and caused a rapid cytopathic effect characterized by rounded and wrinkled cells in both baby hamster kidney cells (bhk21) and african green monkey kidney cells (vero). we found neutralizing antibodies against emc virus in 408 (77%) of 529 domestic pigs (sus scrofa scrofa) and in 165 (49%) of 338 wild boa ... | 1995 | 8583644 |
| epidemiological study of the intestinal helminths of wild boar (sus scrofa) and mouflon (ovis gmelini musimon) in central italy. | since 1995 the population of wild ungulates increased significantly in the "parco provinciale dei monti livornesi" (livorno, tuscany, central italy). we studied the intestinal macroparasites of two hosts, the wild boar (sus scrofa) and the mouflon (ovis gmelini musimon). in the case of wild boars we found a dominant parasite species, globocephalus urosubulatus. for this parasite the frequency distribution of the number of parasites per host agrees with a negative binomial distribution. there is ... | 2002 | 12701385 |
| traceability of inbred and crossbred cinta senese pigs by evaluating the oxidative stress. | previous studies on the oxidative stress in swine indicated a strong link between the values of reactive oxygen metabolites (roms), the subsequent antioxidant adaptive response (oxy) and the genetic selection. such findings, mainly related to a cardiovascular inadequacy in lean, large muscle blocks and fast growing breeds, is associated with specific metabolic diseases such as porcine stress syndrome and mulberry heart disease. in this study, we investigated the oxidative stress parameters to tr ... | 2003 | 12757547 |
| seroprevalence study of tick-borne encephalitis, borrelia burgdorferi, dengue and toscana virus in turin province. | tick borne encephalitis virus (tbev) is present in some european countries and it is transmitted by a tick bite. ixodes ricinus is the main vector of the infection in italy, where fortunately clinical neurological manifestations, typical of the more serious phase of the disease, are very rarely observed. this behaviour is different from other endemic euroasiatic areas where numerous cases of encephalitis are described. however tbe transmission has not been widely investigated in italy and availa ... | 2007 | 16312014 |
| rickettsia slovaca and rickettsia raoultii in dermacentor marginatus ticks collected on wild boars in tuscany, italy. | during the hunting season 2007-2008, 494 dermacentor marginatus (sulzer) ticks were collected from 109 hunter-killed wild boars, sus scrofa, in lucca's province, tuscany, italy. rickettsia slovaca, the causative agent of tick-borne lymphadenopathy (tibola), was detected in 32.1% of ticks tested (n=112) by using polymerase chain reaction primers targeting glta, ompa, and ompb rickettsial genes. moreover, rickettsia raoultii was found for the first time in italy, with 1.8% infection prevalence. th ... | 2009 | 19960702 |
| matrix metalloproteinase (mmp)-9: a realiable marker for inflammation in early human trichinellosis. | matrix metalloproteinases (mmps) are involved in many physiological and pathological processes. as regards parasitic infections, the role of these proteins has been particularly studied in malaria, neurocysticercosis and angiostrongyloidosis. recently, we evaluated serum levels of mmp-9 and -2 (gelatinases) in mice experimentally infected with trichinella spiralis or trichinella pseudospiralis, which cause different degrees of myositis and we found their significant increase in the former and, a ... | 2016 | 27117947 |
| pseudorabies virus in european wild boar from central italy. | tissue and blood samples were collected from 152 wild boars (sus scrofa) from the maremma area (grosseto district, central italy) between november 2002 and january 2003. the presence of pseudorabies virus (prv) antibodies, antigen, and dna were confirmed by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa), immunohistochemistry, and polymerase chain reaction (pcr), respectively. of 152 animals, 62 (41%) were positive for viral antigen in tonsillar tissue. of the 80 serum samples that were suitable fo ... | 2006 | 16870854 |
| sanitary monitoring models for wild ungulate stock farms in tuscany. | | 2005 | 16244929 |
| cystic echinococcosis in italy from the 1950s to present. | in italy the epidemiological pattern of cistic echinococcosis (ce) is incomplete and the information for most regions is out of date, contradictory, and almost exclusively limited to the intermediate hosts. the disease is found most frequently in particular social and economic conditions: widespread use of extensive or semi-extensive sheep farming, illegal slaughtering, and high numbers of sheepdogs and other types of dogs. the highest incidence in sheep is found in sardinia (70.6-92.8%), sicily ... | 2004 | 16044697 |
| necropsy and coprology in wild boar (sus scrofa) in livorno mountain park (tuscany, central italy). | the present research analyses the reliability of coprological tests, both quantitative and qualitative, as indicators of the parasite burden of hosts, using data from wild boars (sus scrofa) living in livorno mountain park (tuscany, central italy). in the case of intestinal strongyles, which turned out to be the dominant helminths of wild boars, the qualitative coprological test appears as a bad predictor of the real parasite situation of the herds, due to the high number of false negative resul ... | 2004 | 15828435 |
| prevalence of leptospira and brucella antibodies in wild boars (sus scrofa) in tuscany, italy. | five hundred sixty-two blood samples were collected from wild boars (sus scrofa) shot in six districts of tuscany, central italy, between 1997 and 2000. sera were examined for antibodies specific for leptospira interrogans by microagglutination test and brucella spp. by the rose bengal test and indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. thirty-four (6.0%) samples tested positive for anti-leptospira antibodies, 29 (5.1%) sera were positive for anti-l. interrogans serovar bratislava antibodies (t ... | 2003 | 14567237 |
| the genetic impact of demographic decline and reintroduction in the wild boar (sus scrofa): a microsatellite analysis. | the reintroduction of wild boar from central europe after world war ii has contributed substantially to the range expansion of this species in italy, where indiscriminate hunting in earlier times resulted in extreme demographic reduction. however, the genetic impact of such processes is not well-understood. in this study, 105 individuals from italian and hungarian wild boar populations were characterized for nine autosomal microsatellite loci. the hungarian samples, and two central italian sampl ... | 2003 | 12675815 |
| seroprevalence study of tick borne encephalitis in turin province. | tick borne encephalitis (tbe) virus is diffused in some european countries and it is transmitted by tick bites. in italy isodex ricinus represents the main vector of the infection, that rarely produces the neurologic manifestations, characterising the secondary phase of the same. | 2002 | 12094141 |
| [epidemiological remarks on the "s. arizonae" strains isolated from various animals in tuscany during 1969-1978 (author's transl)]. | after a review of the taxonomic history of the genus arizona culminated in the insertion of these bacteria in the kauffmann-white schema, the most significant references concerning their pathogenicity and occurrence are related. in this paper, the outbreaks and sporadic cases by s. arizonae which occurred in tuscan area during 1969-1978 are reported; between several animal species, turkeys were found frequently infect and the same serotype (s. arizonae 18:z4,z32:-) was identified. the epidemiolo ... | 1980 | 7195690 |
| [on the epidemiology of hymenolepiasis. ii. diffusion of hymenolepis nana in animals in pisa urban area]. | | 1968 | 5740692 |
| italian experience in salmonella spp. isolations from 1973 to 1986. | a total of 150,072 strains of salmonella were isolated in italy over a 14-year period. the strains from humans, food, animals and from environmental samples reached the national centre for enterobacteria in rome and the interregional centres for enterobacteria in milan, palermo and pisa to be characterized according to their serotype. s. typhimurium was the most frequently isolated serotype from both humans and food in nearly all the years considered. pork was the source most frequently found to ... | 1989 | 2654574 |
| trichinellosis outbreak caused by meat from a wild boar hunted in an italian region considered to be at negligible risk for trichinella. | the wild boar is an important source of trichinellosis for people in european countries as a large number of hunted animals escape veterinary control. in november 2012, uncooked sausages made with meat from wild boar were consumed by 38 persons in a village of the lucca province (tuscany region, italy). of them, 34 were serologically positive, 32 developed clinical signs and symptoms of trichinellosis, and two were asymptomatic. trichinella britovi larvae were detected in vacuum-packed sausages ... | 2015 | 25103623 |
| hplc-apci-ms analysis of triacylglycerols (tags) in historical pharmaceutical ointments from the eighteenth century. | the lipid fractions of residues from historical pharmaceutical ointments were analysed by reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization and mass spectrometer detection. the residues were contained in a series of historical apothecary jars, dating from the eighteenth century and conserved at the "aboca museum" in sansepolcro (arezzo, italy) and at the pharmacy of the "real cartuja de valldemossa" in palma de majorca (spain). the analytical protocol was ... | 2011 | 21713420 |
| mitochondrial dna sequence variations in some italian wild boar populations. | in order to investigate the relationships between italian wild boar and major pig breeds, we studied the genetic variability of four wild boar populations in italy (arezzo, pisa, parma, bergamo) using a 533-bp fragment of the mitochondrial control region. sixty-nine wild boar samples were analysed, allowing the identification of 10 distinct haplotypes, which involve a total of 15 single nucleotide polymorphisms. phylogenetic and network analyses were performed also considering several sequences ... | 2009 | 19320773 |
| serologic, molecular, and pathologic survey of pseudorabies virus infection in hunted wild boars (sus scrofa) in italy. | to investigate pseudorabies-virus (prv) -antibody and viral-dna prevalence, we collected blood, nasal and genital swabs, and tonsillar and lymph-node tissue samples from 139 wild boars (sus scrofa; 39 piglets, 30 juveniles, and 70 adults), during the hunting season of 2010-2011 in tuscany, central italy. we performed immunohistochemistry with anti-prv monoclonal antibodies on selected tissue samples. forty-three of 139 (30.9%) boars were prv-antibody positive and a 1,954-base-pair prv-specific p ... | 2014 | 24779458 |