| 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 |
| molecular identification of borrelia valaisiana and hge-like ehrlichia in ixodes ricinus ticks sampled in north-eastern italy: first report in veneto region. | pcr amplification was applied to screen the presence of both borrelia burgdorferi s.l. and ehrlichia species in pools of field-collected ixodes ricinus ticks. the specimens so far analysed (n = 55), grouped in 11 pools, were sampled in feltre area (veneto region, ne italy). five pools proved positive for b. valaisiana (45%) and one of them (9%) was also positive for ehrlichia, that was further characterised as a hge-like ehrlichia. this is the first report of the two bacteria in the veneto regio ... | 2001 | 11921543 |
| a study of the presence of b. burgdorferi, anaplasma (previously ehrlichia) phagocytophilum, rickettsia, and babesia in ixodes ricinus collected within the territory of belluno, italy. | in the years 2000 and 2001, we sampled ticks in order to establish the distribution of ixodes ricinus in the province of belluno; 5987 tick samples from 244 sites throughout the province were gathered, by dragging for a 5-min period. in 40 sites, seasonal variations and cycle stages of the parasites were studied at monthly intervals from march to september. a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) technique was used to identify the tick-infected sites. of 1931 individual ticks, 8.23% were positive for ... | 2006 | 16584324 |