Acute gastroenteritis due to biovar infection: A case report.

represents diverse species and includes pathogenic and non-pathogenic variants. Particularly serogroups O1 and O139 are related to cholera epidemics, while non-O1/O139 serogroups (NOVC) in general are non-pathogenic or asymptomatic colonizers in humans, but also can cause different diseases. , a non-O1/non-O-139 serogroup, is rarely implicated in human infections.

An Italian Case of Disseminated Histoplasmosis Associated with HIV.

is a dimorphic fungus, endemic in the Americas, Africa (var. ), India, and Southeast Asia. infection is rarely diagnosed in Italy, while in Latin America, progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH) is one of the most frequent AIDS-defining illnesses and causes of AIDS-related deaths.

Trends and challenges in tuberculosis in a medium-sized southern European setting.

Trends in tuberculosis (TB) admissions over 40 years at the Infectious Diseases Clinic of Perugia University Hospital, Perugia, Italy, show that in the last decade non-Italian TB case admissions outweighed those of Italians, with a large number of cases from Eastern Europe (25.2%) and Africa (23.4%).

[Loa loa filariasis in Italy: review of the literature with a clinical report].

We present the case of an asymptomatic Loa loa disease in a 28-year-old Nigerian man living in Italy for 5 years. The man was admitted to our clinic for an occasional identification of hypereosinophilia (white blood cell count 5440/mmc, eosinophil 42%) and the presence of microfilaria at an hemoscopic evaluation. The diagnosis was made by testing the diurnal peripheral blood that showed a parasitaemia of 7000 microfilia/mL.