1 Dipartimento di Patologia Animale, Igiene e Sanita` Pubblica Veterinaria Sezione di Patologia Generale e Parassitologia, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milano, Italy 2 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK 3 The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, North Mymms, Hatfield AL9 7TA, UK 4 Ecole Nationale Ve ́ te ́ rinaire, 23 Chemin des Capel...

Although the mechanisms are poorly understood, there is evidence that biofilm-associated resistance may be related to modified nutrient environments, leading to suppression of growth rate within the biofilm, interaction between exopolymer matrices and the antimicrobial, as well as the development of biofilm-specific phenotypes [3]. In comparative antimicrobial susceptibility studies, many commo...

In a recent work, we introduced novel method to compute the effective reproduction number $$R_t$$ and applied it describe development of COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. The study is based on daily positive swabs as reported by Italian Dipartimento di Protezione Civile. Recently, Istituto Superiore Sanità made available data relative symptomatic cases, where reporting date beginning symptoms instead...

In Italy most herbal products are sold as food supplements and are subject only to food law. A list of about 1200 plants authorised for use in food supplements has been compiled by the Italian Ministry of Health. In order to review and possibly improve the Ministry's list an ad hoc working group of Istituto Superiore di Sanità was requested to provide a technical and scientific opinion on plant...

Chronic diseases can be prevented and controlled using available knowledge. Moreover, the solutions are not only effective but can be highly cost-effective. Chronic care model and disease management have emerged, in the last decades, as new models of care delivery. The two models share the objective of improving the quality of care for people with chronic diseases while optimizing health care e...

Several approaches to evaluate an overall trend including Registries with different length of activity with a defined period of time have been evaluated in the cancer trend study of the Italian Network of Cancer Registries (AIRT). The study used the nine Registries of the pool AIRT in the period 1986-1997. Data for 1986-1993 from the Registry of Ragusa have been excluded to simulate the inclusi...

In September 2018, a serious epidemic of Legionella Pneumophila serotypes 1-2-14, diagnosed by the Istituto Superiore Sanita (ISS), occurred in low plain south Brescia. This resulted considerable number hospitalizations hospitals ATS Brescia and Valpadana (Mantua) with high mortality rate. It was an anomalous situation both for spread which alarmed local health structures. is expressions malais...

1 S.O.C. Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (PN), Italy. 2 Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘‘Mario Negri,’’ Milano, Italy. 3 Servizio di Epidemiologia, Istituto Tumori ‘‘Fondazione Pascale,’’ Napoli, Italy. 4 Servizio Integrato di Epidemiologia e Sistemi Informativi, Istituto Nazionale Tumori ‘‘Regina Elena,’’ Roma, Italy. 5 S.O.C. Anatomia Patologica, C...