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lyme disease. first reported case in sicily.	recently many cases of lyme disease have been described in italy. the patients come prevalently from friuli venezia giulia and the eastern ligurian coast. isolated cases have been diagnosed in other parts of northern italy and in the central regions. we describe the first sicilian case, concluding that lyme borreliosis may well be widely distributed in our country.	1991	2013515
the epidemiology of lyme borreliosis in italy.	erythema migrans was described in italy only in 1971 although italian dermatologists were familiar with it a long time before. in 1983, the first case of lyme borreliosis with multisystem involvement was identified. the endemic areas in italy are the ligurian coast, the province of friuli venezia giulia, and the region surrounding the town of bologna. in liguria, the incidence of lyme disease is about 17/100,000 inhabitants per year. serosurveys of the general population and of sentinel animals ...	1992	1435355
prevalence of igg reactivity in lyme borreliosis patients versus borrelia garinii and borrelia afzelii in a restricted area of northern italy.	this survey evaluates the antibody band patterns of sera taken from clinically defined cases of lyme borreliosis, towards three locally isolated strains of borrelia burgdorferi, belonging to the three species: borrelia sensu stricto, borrelia garinii and borrelia afzelii, by means of western blot. the sera were taken from patients resident in a limited area of friuli venezia giulia (fvg) region. the data indicated that, besides a different feature of the band reactivity which correlated to the d ...	1995	8745006
lyme disease in italy, 1983-1996.	this paper is a brief review of the epidemiology of lyme disease in italy. the first case of the illness was identified by crovato in liguria in 1983. in the following years, many other cases have been reported from all italian regions with the exception of valle d'aosta, basilicata and calabria. the exact number of cases in our country is not known because lyme disease was not a notifiable disease until 1990, but on the basis of literature data, at least 1324 cases have been observed in the fou ...	1998	9812324
detection of hge agent-like ehrlichia in ixodes ricinus ticks in northern italy by pcr.	little is known about the distribution of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (hge) in europe and even less is known in italy, where no case of clinically documented hge has been reported. in a previous study we reported the presence of ehrlichia dna in ixodes ricinus ticks from central italy. by the use of an ehrlichia-specific pcr we found that 24% of the ticks were positive. furthermore, we demonstrated a simultaneous coinfection of the same tick by both, borrelia burgdorferi and ehrlichia phagoc ...	1998	10048173
[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
seroprevalence of tick-borne infections in forestry rangers from northeastern italy.	the aim of this study was to estimate the seroprevalence of antibodies to borrelia burgdorferi, anaplasma phagocitophilum and tick-borne encephalitis (tbe) virus, and risk factors, in forestry rangers from the friuli-venezia-giulia region in northeastern italy. sera from 181 forestry rangers were examined with two-tiered serological tests for tbe, lyme borreliosis and ehrlichiosis. information about risk factors such as job location, residence, number of tick bites and outdoor leisure activities ...	2004	15606631
serological evidence of rickettsia infections in forestry rangers in north-eastern italy.	the prevalence of antibodies to rickettsiae and other tick-borne microrganisms in the sera of 181 forestry rangers from friuli-venezia-giulia, italy, was examined. seven (3.9%) sera were positive for rickettsia conorii and rickettsia helvetica, as single or dual infections; four of these sera had been found previously to be positive for borrelia burgdorferi. antibodies to coxiella burnetii were detected in five (2.8%) sera, four of which were also positive for b. burgdorferi. these findings indi ...	2006	16643531