| multinationals and health: reflections on the seveso catastrophe. | on july 10, 1976, a cloud of vaporized products containing dioxin escaped from a deposit of a plant of the icmesa firm in the northern suburbs of milan. the fallout was deposited on a vast zone in the municipalities of desio, seveso, meda, and cesano. dioxin was not the desired product of the industrial process, but rather an impurity which generally accompanies trichlorophenol, and, to a smaller extent, the products synthesized from trichlorophenol. among these there are hexachlorophene and the ... | 1978 | 103846 |
| [gastrointestinal parasitic fauna of cats in the cities of bologna, florence and milan]. | the results of a parasitological survey carried out on 116 cats found dead in bologna, firenze and milano was reported. the parasites identified were: toxocara cati (49.1%); toxascaris leonina (3.4%); ancylostoma tubaeforme (9.5%); ollulanus tricuspis (3.4%); dipylidium caninum (41.4%); taenia taeniaeformis (11.2%); mesocestoides lineatus (1.7%); spirometra sp. (0.9%); coccidia (12.9%). the autopsies' results were compared with coprological ones in order to assess their reliability. | 1985 | 3870646 |
| etiology of ringworm of the scalp, beard and body in rome, italy. | from 1972 to 1977 the authors examined 1,311 patients in rome affected by ringworm of the scalp, beard and body, comparing their findings with a study made in milan between 1969 to 1973 and with earlier italian studies from 1900 to date. it appears that at the beginning of the century scalp ringworm was usually caused by trichophyton violaceum and t. tonsurans, whereas microsporum canis was rarely found. today the trichophyton species are rarely isolated, whereas microsporum species, particularl ... | 1980 | 7423332 |
| [frequency of risk factors in bronchial asthma in various regions of italy. collaborating group isrdce (italian studies of respiration disorders in childhood and the environment)]. | many risk factors, both individual and environmental, are associated to asthma. in this paper the frequency distribution of various asthma risk factors in different geographical areas in italy is provided. data come from s.i.d.r.i.a.--italian studies on respiratory disorders in childhood and the environment--a collaborative research project which involved 18,737 children in the first two levels of primary school and 21,410 adolescents in the third class of the secondary school. the study populat ... | 1997 | 9489226 |
| characterization of the first bartonella henselae strain isolated from a cat in italy. | bartonella henselae has been identified and characterized for the first time in italy. a strain, designed pavia-1, was isolated from the blood of a cat whose owner developed cat scratch disease (csd). pavia-1 and two american b. henselae strains (houston-1, atcc 49882, type i and strain 269608, uc davis, type ii) were compared by whole-cell fatty analysis (cfa), sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (sds-page) for protein profiles, western immunoblotting (wb) for reactivity w ... | 2002 | 12135236 |
| 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 |
| response of renal parenchyma and interstitium of rana snk. esculenta to environmental pollution. | the mesonephroi of two groups of rana esculenta collected from two rice fields near pavia, one relatively unpolluted and one polluted, were morphologically and histochemically investigated. light and electron microscopy analyses were performed and certain enzyme activities studied (succinic dehydrogenase, sdh, alkaline phosphatase, alkpase, acid phosphatase, acpase, catalase, cat, and nos-related nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphatase, nos/nadphd). the expression of the inducible nos (ino ... | 2011 | 21497903 |