M. Quarantelli, O. Palladino, A. Prinster, V. Schiavone, B. Carotenuto, A. Brunetti, G. Ventrella, A. Marsili, A. De Bartolomeis, and M. Salvatore Biostructure and Bioimaging Institute, National Research Council, Naples, Italy, Institute of Psychiatry, University “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, 3 “S.D.N.” Foundation, Naples, Italy, Department of Biomorphological and Functional Sciences, Universit...

Toscana virus (TOSV) represents a frequent cause of viral meningitis in the Mediterranean Basin that remains neglected in neighbouring countries. We report a documented TOSV meningitis case in a traveller returning from Tuscany to Switzerland. While routine serological and PCR assays could not discriminate between TOSV and Sandfly fever Naples virus infection, a high-throughput sequencing perfo...

The antigenic relationship of the 31 currently recognized phlebotomus fever group viruses was examined by plaque reduction neutralization test. Although some low-level 0cross-neutralization was observed, each of the viruses was easily differentiated by this method. Rift Valley fever virus was shown to be antigenically related to Candiru, Frijoles, Karimabad and Punta Toro viruses. Naples, Tehra...

Gian Luca Pellegrini, Lucilla de Arcangelis, Hans J. Herrmann and Carla Perrone-Capano 1 Department of Physical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Napoli, Italy 2 Dept. of Information Engineering and CNISM, Second University of Naples, 81031 Aversa (CE), Italy 3 Computational Physics, IfB, ETH-Hönggerberg, Schafmattstr. 6, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland 4 Dept. of Biological Sciences, ...

Edoardo Cosenza; Fiorenzo De Cicco, Ph.D.; and Andrea Prota Full Professor, Dept. of Structural Engineering, Univ. of Naples “Federico II”, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy. E-mail: cosenza@ unina.it Dept. of Structural Engineering, Univ. of Naples “Federico II”, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] Assistant Professor, Dept. of Structural Engineering, Univ....

*Corresponding author: Lucio Pastore, MD, PhD, CEINGEBiotecnologie Avanzate, Via Gaetano Salvatore 486, 80145, Naples, Italy, Phone: +39 081 3737885, Fax: +39 081 3737808, E-mail: [email protected]; and Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy Barbara Lombardo and Giuseppe Castaldo: Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e ...

324 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 19, No. 2, February 2013 in Italy and Spain (1,9). In southern European countries, TOSV is mostly transmitted by P. perniciosus and P. perfiliewi sandflies (1,6,9), whereas P. perniciosus, P. longicuspis, and P. perfiliewi are the most abundant sandfly species in northern Tunisia. It is therefore probable that TOSV is transmitted by sand...

Massimo D’Agostino, Giusy Tornillo, Maria Gabriella Caporaso, Maria Vittoria Barone, Eric Ghigo, Stefano Bonatti* and Giovanna Mottola* Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biotecnologie Mediche, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Via S. Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy Dipartimento di Pediatria, European Laboratory For the Investigation of Food Induced Disease, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Via S...

Galway, Ireland The Effect of Thermoplastic Zein And Hydroxyapatite on the in vitro Degradation and Biological Response of Novel Multi-Phase PCL Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering Aurelio Salerno, Stefania Zeppetelli, Ernesto Di Maio, Salvatore Iannace, Paolo A. Netti Corresponding Author: [email protected] 1 Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials and Italian Institute of Technolo...

Viruses in the Phlebovirus genus of the family Bunyaviridae cause clinical syndromes ranging from a short, self-limiting febrile illness to fatal haemorrhagic fever. The genus currently consists of 68 antigenically distinct virus serotypes, most of which have not been genetically characterized. RT-PCR with four 'cocktail' primers was performed to amplify a region of the M segment of the genome ...