INTRODUCTION The study aims to investigate the change in the burden of disease and the microbiological characteristics of Invasive Meningococcal Disease (IMD) in Puglia in comparison with overall incidence from 1994 through 2014. METHODS Data are gathered in the frame of the National Surveillance System coordinated by the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità...

At the moment, the health-environmental risk analysis is used to decision-making targets in the contaminated sites management; this procedure allows to assess the quantitative health risk related to the pollutants presence in environmental compartments, as soil and waters. As regards potentially contaminated agricultural soils, the ingestion of food from vegetable and/or animal source, produced...

1Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, VIB, Leuven, Belgium; 2Center for Human Genetics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 3Inserm U944 and Hematology Laboratory, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Institut Universitaire d’Hématologie, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France; 4National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 8147 and Department of Hem...

A. Lapucci [email protected] CNR National Research Council, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica,Largo Enrico Fermi 6, I-50125 Firenze, Italy M. Ciofini CNR National Research Council, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica,Largo Enrico Fermi 6, I-50125 Firenze, Italy M. Pucci CNR National Research Council, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica,Largo Enrico Fermi 6, I-50125 Firenze, Italy M. D’Uva CNR National Resear...

1 Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla (ICMS), Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and University of Seville, Seville, Spain, 2 Smart Materials, Nanophysics, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy, 3 Drug Discovery and Development Department, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy, 4 Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea...

Ireneusz Grabowski, Eduardo Fabiano, and Fabio Della Sala 3 Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL), Istituto di Nanoscienze-CNR, Via per Arnesano 16, I-73100 Lecce, Italy Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies @UNILE, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via B...

P. Paoletti, M. Basso, V. Pini, B. Tiribilli, and M. Vassalli Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze I-50019, Italy Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universita di Firenze, via S.Marta 3, Firenze I-50139, Italy BioNanoMechanics Lab, IMM-CNM (CSIC), Calle Isaac Newton 8 (PTM), Tres Cantos, Madrid E-28760, Spain Istituto di Biofisica, CNR, vi...

D. Montanari,1 L. Corradi,2 S. Szilner,3 G. Pollarolo,4 E. Fioretto,2 A.M. Stefanini,2 E. Farnea,5 C. Michelagnoli,1 G. Montagnoli,1 F. Scarlassara,1 C.A. Ur,5 S. Courtin,6 A. Goasduff,6 F. Haas,6 T. Mijatović,3 and N. Soić3 1Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-35131, Padova, Italy 2Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laborat...

Marco Polini, ∗ Francisco Guinea, Maciej Lewenstein, 4 Hari C. Manoharan, 6 and Vittorio Pellegrini NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, I-56126 Pisa, Italy Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, E-28049 Madrid, Spain ICFO Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 3, E-08860 Castell...

Sermonti, G. (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy), Milena Bandiera, and Isabella Spada-Sermonti. New approach to the genetics of Streptomyces coelicolor. J. Bacteriol. 91:384-392. 1966.-Mixed cultures of complementary auxotrophic strains of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) were preincubated on discs of cellophane on complete medium and were then transferred onto selective media. When one st...