Identità e lingua di madri moldave emigrate in Italia

Epidemia di morbillo in Italia in pazienti adulti

T he World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe has set 2010 as the target for elimination of measles in the region [1, 2]. This objective has already been achieved in some States through routine immunization programs which maintain high coverage [3]. In Italy, measles vaccination is currently offered free of charge as combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Although childhood v...

Lingua Franca @ E-learning: Contours of Contradictions in Multilingualism

The new social media-driven phenomenal communicative modes transform e-learning and e-sharing experience in and beyond different linguistic and cultural spaces; like the Facebook or Twitter, socioeconomic activities at a global scale seem more and more borderless and just-in-time, allowing most forms of communication: one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many. The everincreasingly o...

First enteric Escherichia fergusonii from Italy Primo isolamento enterico di Escherichia fergusonii in Italia

Escherichia fergusonii is a Gram-negative rod which belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. Though known to behave as a commensal organism in the gut of warm-blooded animals, knowledge regarding its natural habitat mostly remains unclear. E. fergusonii is very rarely recovered from clinical specimens and it has recently emerged as the causative agent of wound, biliary and urinary tract infect...

Darwin in Italia

patients. The demonstration led to the realization that an exotoxin was produced in the experimental animal but it took many experiments and much subsequent work to define the conditions whereby such an exotoxin could be isolated and purified under laboratory conditions. The work was slow because there were many who did not believe that such an exotoxin could possibly exist. Simultaneously, par...

Irish Trainees Continuing to Emigrate.