Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis
December 2020
Italy was declared malaria free by the World Health Organization in 1970. Despite this, nonimport malaria cases are on the increase in Italy and throughout the Mediterranean area. In Italy, in the period between 2011 and 2015, seven cases of locally acquired malaria have been reported, including one introduced case of ; moreover, the last certain case of introduced malaria (by has been reported in Tuscany in 1997.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntibiotic resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae strains is an increasing problem in a lot of hospitals. It is a public health emergency because it relates with high mortality rate among patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). From 1/1/2009 to 31/08/2010, in ICU of SS Annunziata Hospital of Taranto, 140 isolated Klebsiella pneumoniae strains were detected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe introduction of targeted immunotherapies has greatly improved the therapeutic options of several inflammatory diseases such as psoriatic arthritis. However treatment-related opportunistic infections and viral reactivations may still occur. We describe a case of varicella zoster virus (VZV) encephalitis due to the reactivation of latent VZV infection during a long therapy with the anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) drug Adalimumab.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAt today, neurologic desorders associated with novel influenza A (H1N1) virus were reported only in children but not in adult. We report two cases of encephalitis associated to H1N1 virus infection occurred in females of age 28 and 37 years. In both cases disease was less severe without neurologic sequelae.
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