| severe anthrax outbreaks in italy in 2004: considerations on factors involved in the spread of infection. | anthrax is a disease of humans and animals caused by the encapsulated, spore-forming bacillus anthracis. in italy, anthrax is normally a sporadic disease. during the summer 2004, anthrax broke out in the basilicata, in southern italy, a region with a low prevalence of anthrax in which vaccination had been suspended since 1998. the disease involved several animals in few weeks and in a large area. over 41 days, 81 cattle died, as well as 15 sheep, 9 goats, 11 horses and 8 deer. the multiple-locus ... | 2010 | 20402418 |
| snr analysis: molecular investigation of an anthrax epidemic. | in italy, anthrax is endemic but occurs sporadically. during the summer of 2004, in the pollino national park, basilicata, southern italy, an anthrax epidemic consisting of 41 outbreaks occurred; it claimed the lives of 124 animals belonging to different mammal species. this study is a retrospective molecular epidemiological investigation carried out on 53 isolates collected during the epidemic. a 25-loci multiple locus vntr analysis (mlva) mlva was initially performed to define genetic relation ... | 2010 | 20187980 |