| [echinococcus granulosus infection in urban areas]. | in a previous survey, carried out in 100 dogs in rome by tassi and widenhorn (1977), two animals, which always lived in the urban area, were found infected by echinococcus granulosus. an urban infection was therefore hypothized. during a following experiment 6 three-month old beagle dogs were fed for nine months with raw meat sold in the butcheries of rome as "food for pets". two dogs of the same breed and origin were fed for the same period with canned food and were kept as control animals. at ... | 1978 | 553262 |
| evaluation of the size of stray dog population and of related problems in emilia-romagna. | an investigation was carried out on the diffusion of stray dog populations in emilia-romagna by submitting a questionnaire/interview. 30 gamekeeper officers and 21 public veterinarians of bologna and forlì provinces were interviewed. the data collected were compared with the official data of the health council of the emilia-romagna region. statistical analysis confirmed a correlation between number of biting dogs and inhabitants of the province; number of captured dogs and registered dogs; numbe ... | 1992 | 1303041 |
| dog-transmitted zoonoses: a serological survey in the province of bologna. | eight hundred and two sera of owned dogs from four small towns north-west of bologna were examined for the presence of antibodies against coxiella burnetii and leishmania infantum. at the same time, 149 sera of 69 dog owners from the same area were tested for the presence of antibodies to q fever, leishmaniasis, echinococcosis/hydatidosis and toxocarosis. of the 802 dog sera, 7 (0.87%) were positive for q fever. of the 69 dog owners, 24 (35%) were positive for q fever, 4 (6%) for echinococcosis/ ... | 1992 | 1303042 |
| [epidemiological studies on leptospirosis. isolation and study of serotypes from dogs in the province of parma]. | | 1964 | 5890779 |
| [echinococcosis/hydatidosis in emilia-romagna: a study of hospital admissions in the period of 1989-1993]. | an overview of the epidemiology human echinococcosis/hydatidosis is presented for the emilia-romagna region during the period 1989-1993. data were extracted from hospital discharge reports. the description was based on 806 discharges totaling 10187 days of stay. thirty-five percent of the patients discharged were residents outside the emilia-romagna region. a significant statistical correlation was identified between a high average yearly incidence of the disease and a relatively small jurisdict ... | 1997 | 9157024 |
| [human cystic hydatidosis in italy: a public health emergency? past to present]. | starting from 1991 the central office of statistics istat, according to changed regulations on notification of infective diseases, stopped reporting official national data on human hydatidosis. on the other hand until then notified data, concerning only about a hundred cases per year in mean during the last decades and just 36 in 1991, appeared unreliable, suggesting a diffusion far from the actual. owing to specific studies on different research groups it is possible to try to describe a not ex ... | 2004 | 15305684 |
| [monitoring of canine leishmaniasis in northern italy: an update from a scientific network]. | canine leishmaniasis (canl) due to leishmania infantum is a disease of great veterinary importance and a serious public health problem. in humans, l. infantum causes visceral (vl) and cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) and the distribution of vl overlaps that of canl. currently, vl is considered by who as an emerging zoonosis in southern europe. the dog is the only domestic reservoir of the infection and phlebotomine sandflies are the only proven vectors of leishmaniasis for dogs and humans. canl is e ... | 2004 | 15305715 |
| updates on cystic echinococcosis (ce) in italy. | an update on cystic echinococcosis (ce) diffusion in italy during 2003-2005 is reported. ce seems to have a sporadic diffusion in the northern part of the country where this disease plays a minor role (prevalence < 1%). recent investigations have shown the occurrence of ce cases in humans from the mountains between reggio emilia and modena, with an average year incidence between 9.4 and 5.6/100,000. in abruzzo prevalences in sheep and cattle are 20.2% and 15.3%, with a fertility of 4.6% and 1.3% ... | 2006 | 16881397 |
| a stable focus of canine leishmaniosis in the bologna province, italy. | during an epidemiological survey carried out for two consecutive years (2001-2002), autochthonous cases of canine leishmaniosis (canl) were reported in communes of the bologna province (emilia-romagna region, northern italy), involved in the past (1971-1972) in a severe outbreak of human visceral leishmaniosis (vl). serological controls, carried out by immunofluorescence antibody test on a sample of owned dogs, detected a mean prevalence of 2.5% in the first year in 4 communes, and of 11.2% in t ... | 2003 | 15267002 |
| a new stable focus of canine leishmaniasis in northern italy. | a new stable focus of canine leishmaniasis (canl) was identified in a coastal adriatic area of the emilia-romagna region in northern italy. following the first clinical cases observed starting from 1998, a seroepidemiological survey was carried out on owned dogs from two communes and on animals housed in dog pounds of the rimini province. sixteen out of 612 dogs (2.6%) resulted positive to the ifa test. the 16 positive dogs all came from the two communes, with seroprevalences of 3 and 6%, respec ... | 2001 | 12402521 |
| [research on the intestinal parasitic fauna of the dog in some semi-urban and rural zones of the province of forli]. | | 1980 | 7312396 |
| human subcutaneous dirofilariasis. 2. a report of 5 new cases of dirofilaria repens in central and northern italy and of a sixth case with uncertain parasitological diagnosis. | six new human cases of subcutaneous filariasis (histological sections) in lombardia, emilia-romagna and toscana are described. five of them are to attribute to dirofilaria repens, whereas some doubts exist with regard to one case. the findings are compared with histological sections of male and female specimens of d. repens and d. immitis recovered from naturally infected dogs. | 1982 | 6926933 |
| [finding of sarcocystis cruzi in a dog of the city of bologna]. | | 1980 | 6796929 |
| [research on environmental contamination of canine origin in a quarter of the city of bologna]. | | 1984 | 6546277 |
| histoplasmosis in italy. i. isolaton of histoplasma capsulatum from dogs in the province of bologna. | | 1968 | 5647148 |
| swine lymphoid and myeloid neoplasms in italy. | in the decade 1973-1982, data from all the principal diagnostic centers in italy reveals that swine lymphoid and myeloid neoplasms (lmn) have been observed only few times (78 cases). in a 25-year period (1950-1984) 48 cases were diagnosed in our institute, among which all the known forms of lmn, including the most uncommon such as multiple myeloma (1) and myeloid forms (4) including 1 chloroma and 1 erythraemic neoplasm. the incidence remains low; 1.17% of the diseased swine sent for necropsy, w ... | 1987 | 3314113 |
| [human pulmonary dirofilariasis. a third case in italy]. | a new case of human pulmonary dirofilariasis, the third in italy, is described. it occurred in august 1990 in a 66 years old man, living in san donà di piave (province of venice). the pulmonary infarctual lesion caused few symptoms and was discovered by chance during a chest x-ray examination as a coin lesion and suspected to be of a neoplastic origin. the histological findings allowed the exact diagnosis, identifying the causal agent as dirofilaria probably repens, a nematode common parasite of ... | 1991 | 1866196 |
| [human dirofilariasis in italy]. | since 1971, at the laboratory of parasitology, faculty of veterinary medicine, university of bologna, 30 cases of human dirofilariasis were observed out of the 101 cases reported in italy. the causative agent was identified in nearly all the cases as dirofilaria repens (nematoda, filarioidea) a parasite relatively common in the dog in italy. 23 cases were localized in the subcutaneous tissue, 4 in the submucosa and 3 in the lungs. in the majority of the cases the diagnosis had been misinterprete ... | 1991 | 1814252 |
| [dermatophytes isolated from man, dog and cat in the city of bologna]. | | 1976 | 1026923 |
| [parasite contamination from feces of dogs and cats in soil and sand-boxes in public parks and schools in bologna]. | in bologna (italy), about 1/10 (public parks) and 1/5 (schools of soil samples from sand-boxes and 1/5 (public parks) and 1/10 (schools) op soil samples from the surroundings were found positive for dog and/or cat parasites. the finding of toxocara sp. eggs in about 1/20 of soil samples from public parks and schools is especially important due to the possibility of human infection. conspicuous was also the parasitic contamination of the faeces collected from green arcas: 48% of the samples resul ... | 1978 | 553274 |
| [detection of salmonella carriers among the dogs of the province of ferrara. isolations in 1 year and antibiotic-resistance]. | when fecal samples were examined from 2.138 dogs, 166 (7.16 per cent) yelded salmonellae of 30 different serotypes. the most frequent serotypes found were s. saint paul, s. typhimurium, s. hadar, s. haifa, s. brandenburg, s. london, s. agona, s. enteritidis, a. meleagridis, s. bredeney, s. infantis, s. panama, s. reading. the antibiotic susceptibility tests against 11 drugs showed resistance to sulphonamides. | 1979 | 550729 |
| canine leishmaniasis surveillance in a northern italy kennel. | an epidemiological survey on canine leishmaniasis (canl) was performed during a 3-year period (2007-2009) in a public kennel of the bologna province. the presence of the disease was shown in the canine population for the first time in 2007 by indirect fluorescent antibody test (ifat). the parasite circulation was confirmed also by direct diagnostic tools, as pcr, cytology and cultural method, performed on different bioptic materials. the parasite was isolated and identified as leishmania infantu ... | 2011 | 21349642 |
| west nile virus circulation in veneto region in 2008-2009. | summarywest nile virus (wnv) was detected in italy, in late summer 2008 in horses and birds in the po valley. as a consequence, an intense wnv surveillance was implemented in that area involving emilia-romagna, veneto and lombardy. this paper presents the results of the september 2008-november 2009 surveillance on equines, mosquitoes, wild birds, dogs and cattle in veneto. wnv was detected in equines and dogs, and, to a lesser extent in cattle and wild birds. simultaneous circulation of usutu vi ... | 2011 | 20670469 |