Clinical characteristics and management of COVID-19 patients accessing the emergency department in a hospital in Northern Italy in March and April 2020.

Background: the emergency due to SARS-CoV-2 pandemic struck the national and regional health system that needed an effort to reorganise and increase resources to cope with a sudden, uncertain, and previously unknown situation. This study was conducted in the immediate aftermath of this difficult period.

Objectives: to describe clinical characteristics, short-term outcomes, and management of SARS-CoV-2 positive patients that accessed the emergency department (ED) of the San Luigi Gonzaga hospital of Orbassano (Turin district, Piedmont Region, Northern Italy) in March and April 2020.

Arthritis caused by group B Streptococcus: a case report.

Streptococcus agalactiae is not only a well-known cause of severe infections in the first 3 months of life but also an unusual organism to be isolated in case of septic arthritis, especially in children. We report a case of a monoarticular arthritis in a 6-month-old girl.

[Urine culture and analysis of data using a computer].

A computerized investigation of microbiological data concerning 7042 culture exams of urines has been carried out. Interesting data from the epidemiological point of view came out: positivity percentages in relation to the different months of the year, strains frequency, incidence of the urinary pathology in relation to sexes. It is also interesting the analysis of positivity percentages in relation to the derivation of samples, since it is clear a significant negativity of non-hospital samples.