Publications by authors named "M Terrana"
After 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to face vital challenges stemming from SARS-CoV-2 variation, causing changes in disease transmission and severity, viral adaptation to animal hosts, and antibody/vaccine evasion. Since the monitoring, characterization, and cataloging of viral variants are important and the existing information on this was scant for Sicily, this pilot study explored viral variants circulation on this island before and in the growth phase of the second wave of COVID-19 (September and October 2020), and in the downslope of that wave (early December 2020) through sequence analysis of 54 SARS-CoV-2-positive samples. The samples were nasopharyngeal swabs collected from Sicilian residents by a state-run one-health surveillance laboratory in Palermo.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the changes in visual acuity (VA) and in macular sensitivity in myopic eyes subjected to laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) refractive surgery.
Methods: In 38 myopic eyes, VA by Snellen's table and macular sensitivity by scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) microperimetry were assessed before and after 24 weeks after LASIK surgery. The myopic eyes were divided into three age-matched groups: Group A = from -5 diopters (D) to -7 D and normal SLO-macular sensitivity (15 eyes); Group B = from -8 D to -16 D and normal SLO-macular sensitivity (9 eyes); and Group C = from -8 D to -16 D and abnormal SLO-macular sensitivity.
Purpose: To evaluate the changes in visual acuity (VA) and in macular sensitivity in myopic eyes subjected to laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) refractive surgery.
Methods: In 38 myopic eyes, VA by Snellen's table and macular sensitivity by scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) microperimetry were assessed before and after 24 weeks after LASIK surgery. The myopic eyes were divided into three age-matched groups: Group A = from -5 diopters (D) to -7 D and normal SLO-macular sensitivity (15 eyes); Group B = from -8 D to -16 D and normal SLO-macular sensitivity (9 eyes); and Group C = from -8 D to -16 D and abnormal SLO-macular sensitivity.