Published in Pathogens and global health
To decrease the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the general population, several measures of social distancing were worldwide implemented potentially affecting sexual behaviors.Evaluating the impact of the social distancing measures on the risk of sexually transmitted infections, the published studies reached contradictory results showing the absence...
Luis Alcocer (Mexico), Christina Antza (Greece), Mustafa Arici (Turkey), Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil), Adel Berbari (Lebanon), Luís Bronze (Portugal), John Chalmers (Australia), Tine De Backer (Belgium), Alejandro de la Sierra (Spain), Kyriakos Dimitriadis (Greece), Dorota Drozdz (Poland), Béatrice Duly-Bouhanick (France), Brent M. Egan (USA), Serap Er...
Published in Journal of endocrinological investigation
The aim of this study was to produce evidence on quality of life (QoL) among Italian growth hormone deficiency (GHD) children and adolescents treated with growth hormone (GH) and their parents. A survey was conducted among Italian children and adolescents aged 4-18 with a confirmed diagnosis of GHD and treated with GH therapy and their parents. The...
Published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
An adult male ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) from a biopark of northern Italy was submitted to necropsy. A multi-organ parasitic infection was macroscopically evident. Abundant sero-hemorrhagic fluid with larval parasites was present in all cavities. The microscopic evaluation of parasites and the molecular characterization revealed the presence o...
La décision-cadre 2005/214/JAI du Conseil, telle que modifiée par la décision-cadre 2009/299/JAI du Conseil, qui vise à améliorer les mécanismes d’exécution transfrontalière des décisions imposant des sanctions pécuniaires. L’étude analyse la mise en œuvre de la décision-cadre dans cinq États membres : l’Allemagne, la Belgique, l’Espagne, l’Italie ...
Published in Journal of medical biography
Pietro Pacifico Gamondi was a tropical physician, who was one of the main protagonists of medical research during the 20th century. His training as a doctor first saw him in Rome following doctor Aldo Castellani. Gamondi then left for Lisbon, London, and the extra-European countries that have characterized his path as a doctor and as a man. In fact...
Grasslands represent key functional ecosystems due to their global contribution to macronutrients cycling and their role as reservoirs of microbial diversity. The strategic importance of these habitats rests on their involvement in carbon and nitrogen fluxes from the atmosphere to the soil, while at the same time offering extensive sites for livest...
Published in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
Between August and September 2023, three distinct autochthonous dengue virus transmission events occurred in Lazio, Italy, with the main event in Rome. The events involved three different dengue serotypes. No link with previous imported cases was identified. Here we describe the epidemiological and phylogenetic analysis of the first autochthonous c...
Published in The International journal of social psychiatry
Many mental disorders especially chronic serious ones such as schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, are disabling syndromes and impact on patients' social and cognitive functioning, including work activity. Thus, affected patients may show a particular socio-economic vulnerability and need specific social security as well as rehabilitation intervention...
This paper aims to understand the individual factors sustaining the migratory flow of Catholic priests to Italy. Priests’ migration cannot be seen as the mere result of lack of vocations and shortage of priests in the host country since their agency, belief, aspirations, and motivations affect their religious identity and, consequently, their integ...
