Publications by authors named "S Ranzieri"
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged occupational medicine, while its focus had already shifted from occupational diseases to work-related illnesses. Such a broader scope allowed the inclusion of transmissible diseases among the causes for concern in working settings. COVID-19 has had a profound impact globally, resulting in millions of infections, often lethal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBorna disease virus 1 (BoDV-1) can cause a severe human syndrome characterized by meningo-myeloencephalitis. The actual epidemiology of BoDV-1 remains disputed, and our study summarized prevalence data among children and adolescents (<18-year-old). Through systematic research on three databases (PubMed, EMBASE, MedRxiv), all studies, including seroprevalence rates for BoDV-1 antigens and specific antibodies, were retrieved, and their results were summarized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn Italy, Legionnaires' Disease (LD) causes >1000 hospital admissions per year, with a lethality rate of 5 to 10%. Occupational exposures could reasonably explain a substantial share of total cases, but the role of Occupational Physicians (OPs) in management and prevention of LD has been scarcely investigated. The present survey therefore evaluates the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) regarding LD from a convenience sample of Italian OPs, focusing on their participation in preventive interventions.
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- Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a major cause of illness and hospitalizations in infants, with preventive options like vaccines and monoclonal antibodies (mAb) being developed, although current preventive measures are mainly for premature infants.
- A survey targeting Italian Pediatricians revealed that only 14.4% had used mAb for RSV prevention, despite 84.8% recognizing it as a serious health threat for all infants, highlighting a knowledge gap in the medical community.
- Analysis showed that higher knowledge scores, experience in hospitals, and being from the Italian Major Islands positively influenced the likelihood of prescribing mAb, indicating that improving education and awareness could enhance preventive measures against RSV.
West Nile virus (WNV) has progressively endemized in large areas of continental Europe, and particularly in Northern Italy, in the Po River Valley. During summer season 2022, Italy experienced an unprecedented surge in incidence cases of WNV infections, including its main complications (West Nile fever (WNF) and West Nile neuroinvasive disease (WNND)). As knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of medical professionals may be instrumental in guaranteeing a prompt diagnosis and an accurate management of incident cases, we performed a cross-sectional study specifically on a sample of Italian medical professionals (1 August 2022-10 September 2022; around 8800 potential recipients).
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