| status of malaria vectors in italy. | about 30 yr after malaria eradication, surveys to assess the presence and abundance of anopheline vectors were carried out in central and southern italy and in the islands of sardinia and sicily from 1992 to 1994. anopheles labranchiae falleroni was present in scattered foci in all regions, except for tuscany, where it breeds almost exclusively in rice fields (grosseto province). most common breeding sites were rivers and streams, followed by ponds and ground pools. the highest adult density was ... | 1997 | 9151488 |
| [malaria eradication in calabria, residual anopheles and transmission risk]. | the paper is from a presentation at the meeting "la malaria in calabria" (cosenza, italy, may 3, 1997) held to celebrate the half centenary of the antimalaria campaign (1947-1952) that eradicated the infection from the region. while plasmodium falciparum had already disappeared in 1950, p. vivax persisted and the last autochtonous case was documented on the river esaro in 1955. from the records of that time, it is clear that malaria eradication was achieved in the presence of important vector de ... | 2000 | 11686081 |
| fourteen-year experience with imported malaria. | geographical position, an increasing flow of immigrants and refugees coming from regions where malaria is endemic might further increase those cases of malaria imported to calabria due to travel on military missions, visiting relatives, business and leisure. however, few reports have been published regarding malaria imported into the southern italian region of calabria. based on data from our laboratory, official reports received from the italian ministry of health and regional health offices, a ... | 2004 | 15711132 |
| the sudden death of alaric i (c. 370-410ad), the vanquisher of rome: a tale of malaria and lacking immunity. | alaric i (c. 370-410ad), king of the visigoths, sacked rome for the second time in over eight centuries of history. historians suggest that malaria, probably contracted either in rome or in the pontine marshes, was responsible for his sudden death in cosenza (calabria) in the autumn of 410ad, where he was allegedly buried in the river busento. in this article, we aim to examine this hypothesis through a full pathographic reassessment of the most likely cause of alaric's demise. | 2016 | 26970917 |