Publications
| a seroprevalence survey on varicella among adults in the vaccination era in apulia (italy). | in 2006, the apulia region (italy) introduced universal routine vaccination (urv) against varicella disease. the coverage for one dose of varicella vaccine at 24 month of age reached 91.1% in 2010 birth-cohort. vaccination coverage for the second dose at 5-6 years was 64.8% for the cohort 2005, and 28.8% for adolescents born in 1997. the aim of the present study is to evaluate the pattern of immunity/susceptibility to varicella in apulian adults by a seroprevalence survey carried out 6 years aft ... | 2014 | 25236583 |
| virulence-associated genes in avian pathogenic escherichia coli from laying hens in apulia, southern italy. | 1. escherichia coli isolated from lesions (avian pathogenic e. coli - apec) of layer hens affected by colibacillosis and from intestinal contents of clinically-healthy birds (avian faecal e. coli - afec) were serotyped. all the isolates were investigated for the presence of virulence genes to determine which genes were more closely related to those from lesions. 2. a number of different serogroups were detected, o78 being predominant among the isolates from colibacillosis. 3. e. coli isolated fr ... | 2012 | 23130581 |