Publications

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
[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
dog tick-borne diseases in sicily.	in sicily many tick borne diseases are endemic, in particular way those that see like main carrier ticks that prefer, for their vital cycle, climatic conditions characterized by high temperatures and a warmth-humid atmosphere. the more important pathologies transmitted by ticks causing diseases in dogs are babesiosis and ehrlichiosis. borrelia burgdorferi, anaplasma phagocytophilum, rickettsia conorii, coxiella burnetii and tick transmitted encephalitis virus assume particular relevance because ...	2006	16881419