Gioia Capelli

TL;DR: Rickettsia conorii survived for the entire storage period in both whole and leukoreduced blood, and viability generally decreased over time, particularly in LR-WB bags where the isolation time was longer than in WB.

TL;DR: A new strain of WNV lineage 1 (WNV--1) emerged in the Veneto Region, northern Italy, in 2021, eight years after the last outbreak in Italy as mentioned in this paper , where most human cases of neuroinvasive disease (WNND) reported in Europe have occurred.

TL;DR: In this article , the clinical and biomolecular findings of the infection due to Cytauxzoon sp. and concomitant coinfections are described in three domestic cats in central Italy.

TL;DR: The rtPCR assay should be reliable for screening large populations for this potential pathogen, thereby allowing cost-effective monitoring of the disease in wild animals, and was more sensitive than a nested PCR that targets a portion of the mtSSU rRNA and the mitochondrial large subunit of rRNA.

TL;DR: Activity of ethanolic extracts of the algae Ulva rigida, Asparagopsis taxiformis, Dictyota dichotoma, and Cystoseira barbata was tested against larvae of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), a vector of pathogens for animals and humans.