BACKGROUND Birch allergy (BA) is a common pollinosis caused by the allergens Bet v 1, Bet v 2, and Bet v 4. Oral allergy syndrome (OAS) is frequently associated with BA. A gradient of sensitization to birch allergen across Europe has been reported. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the birch sensitization profile, including OAS, across Italy. METHODS We performed a retrospective stud...

1 ST European Coordinating Facility, European Southern Observatory, K.-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany 2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via Tiepolo 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy 3 European Southern Observatory, K.-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany 4 Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via dell’Osservatorio 2, Monteporzio, Italy 5 Os...

September 2005 | Volume 2 | Issue 9 | e250 Two-thirds of all poor Italian families are in the south. Of the 20.7 million people (36.1% of Italians) living in southern Italy, 7.3 million (35.4%) are poor, living on less than 521 per month. Some 4.6 million of these people (63.3%) are extremely poor, living on less than 435 per month [1,2]. With such an economic profi le, if southern Italy was th...

Due to their strategic geographic location between three different continents, Sicily and Southern Italy have long represented a major Mediterranean crossroad where different peoples and cultures came together over time. However, its multi-layered history of migration pathways and cultural exchanges, has made the reconstruction of its genetic history and population structure extremely controver...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Population-based cancer registry studies of patterns of care can help elucidate reasons for differences in breast cancer survival across Italy documented by previous studies. The aims of the present study were to investigate across-country variation in stage at presentation and standard care for breast cancer cases diagnosed in Italy in the early 2000s. METHODS Samples of ...

Citation: Renna M, Signore A, Paradiso VM and Santamaria P (2018) Faba Greens, Globe Artichoke’s Offshoots, Crenate Broomrape and Summer Squash Greens: Unconventional Vegetables of Puglia (Southern Italy) With Good Quality Traits. Front. Plant Sci. 9:378. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00378 Faba Greens, Globe Artichoke’s Offshoots, Crenate Broomrape and Summer Squash Greens: Unconventional Vegetables ...

D. Rossini, P. Facchi, R. Fazio, G. Florio, D. A. Lidar, S. Pascazio, F. Plastina, and P. Zanardi International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bari, I-70125 Bari, Italy INFN, Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy NEST-CNR-INFM & Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy Dipartimento...

the main factors affecting environmental sensitivity to degradation are soil, vegetation, climate and management, through either their intrinsic characteristics or by their interaction on the landscape. different levels of degradation risks may be observed in response to particular combinations of the aforementioned factors. for instance, the combination of inappropriate management practices a...

1 Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele, Milano, Italy 2 Studio Oculistico d’Azeglio, Bologna, Italy 3 IRCCS, Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy 4 Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 5 IRCCS Fondazione Bietti, Roma, Italy 6 Doheny Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine at the Un...