Vol. 26 No. 2 (2011)

Original Articles

• Identification using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry: Preliminar Data

  Elisa Gobbato, Vesselina Kroumova, Marcella Perone, Paola Ruzza, Giacomo Fortina

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2360

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Effect evaluation on a medical device for drinking water filtration designed for reduction of microbial density in areas at risk

  Lucia Bonadonna, Claudia Cataldo, Maurizio Semproni

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2361

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Epidemiology of enteric pathogens found in stool symptomatic patients selected in a northern Bari region population between 2000 and 2009

  Maria Antonietta Distasi, Mariella Porzio, Tito Del Gaudio

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2362

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Evaluation of VERSANT® CT/GC DNA 1.0 Assay in conjunction with VERSANT® kPCR Molecular system

  Antonella Marangoni, Alessandra Moroni, Antonietta D’Antuono, Nicoletta Banzola, Enzo Della Bella, Claudio Foschi, Paola Nardini, Paola Monari, Manuela Donati, Roberto Cevenini

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2363

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Influenza A/H1N1/2009 virus - experience of the clinical microbiology laboratory of the “L. Sacco” University Hospital in Milan

  Lisa Lucia Chenal, Alessandra Lombardi, Nadia Zanchetta, Giuseppe Giuliani, Valeria Micheli, Sara Giordana Rimoldi, Loredana Tocalli, Cristina Pagani, Maria Rita Gismondo

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2364

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Italian national survey on molecular epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from pulmonary infection of Cystic Fibrosis patients

  Graziana Manno, Patrizia Morelli, Flavio Favari, Maria Laura Garlaschi, Lisa Cariani, Ersilia Fiscarelli, Esther Manso, Natalia Cirilli, Angelica D’Aprile, Fulvia Gioffrè, Donatella Scuderi, Ivana Collebrusco, Tatiana Borio

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2365

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Specific IgA antibodies in Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections

  Gino Ciarrocchi, Massimo Tocchini, Marco d’Anzeo, Elisabetta Farnocchia, Giuseppe Rondello, Maria Enrica Cimarelli, Brunilde Berti, Andrea Ianniello

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2366

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Evaluation of reactivation of HSV1, HHV6, CMV and EBV in a population of patients undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

  Caterina Matinato, Giovanna Lunghi, Anna Orlandi, Silvia Melotti, Antonella Zoccoli, Damiano Picicco, Erminio Torresani

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2367

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Congenital syphilis surveillance

  Antonella Marangoni, Alessandra Moroni, Elisabetta Tridapalli, Maria Grazia Capretti, Antonietta D’Antuono, Marina Biagi, Sanzio Ruscello, Franca Savioli, Roberto Cevenini

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2368

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Direct immunofluorescence (DFA) on HEP2 and R-Mix Too for Adenovirus detection

  Maria Elena Terlizzi, Stefano Gambarino, Massimiliano Bergallo, Cristina Costa, Francesca Sidoti, Sara Astegiano, Rossana Cavallo

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2369

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Epidemiology of pathogens isolated from blood cultures processed at the “Salam Center for Cardiac Surgery” in Khartoum (Sudan)

  Margherita Scapaticci, Nino Di Pietro

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2370

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Real time RT-PCR assays using cRNA standards for quantification of syncytial respiratory virus type A and B

  Francesca Sidoti, Cristina Costa, Sara Astegiano, Maria Grazia Elena Terlizzi, Stefano Gambarino, Massimiliano Bergallo, Rossana Cavallo

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2371

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification using molecular beacons for quantification of enterovirus RNA

  Francesca Sidoti, Massimiliano Bergallo, Maria Elena Terlizzi, Sara Astegiano, Cristina Costa, Rossana Cavallo

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2372

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Study of class I integron in a Burkholderia cepacia complex strain isolated from blood colture

  Linda Furlanis, Lucia Corich, Lucilla Dolzani, Enrico Angelo Tonin, Cristina Lagatolla

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2373

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Prevalence of intestinal parasitosis in patients afferent to the Hospital of Desio (Monza e Brianza), Italy

  Claudia Ballabio, Natascia Venturi, Maria Roberta Sala, Paolo Mocarelli, Paolo Brambilla

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2374

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Epidemiology of multi-resistance Gram negative pathogen circulating in Liguria and molecular characterization of different carbapenemases

  Erika Coppo, Ramona Barbieri, Paolo Piazzai, Andrea Dusi, David Usiglio, Marco Mori, Roberto Bandettini, Agostina Ronca, Luisa Santoriello, Domizio Serra, Silvia Reali, Anna Marchese, Eugenio A. Debbia

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2375

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Photodynamic therapy for the eradication of biofilms formed by catheter associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains

  Viviana Teresa Orlandi, Francesca Villa, Serena Cavallari, Paola Barbieri, Stefano Banfi, Enrico Caruso, Pierangelo Clerici

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2376

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Epidemiological study of pathogens isolated from blood in Liguria (January-April 2010)

  Ramona Barbieri, Erika Coppo, Elisa Principi, Luigi Carlo Bottaro, Paolo Piazzai, Orietta Illiberi, Pier Andrea Dusi, Rita Revello, David Usiglio, Marco Mori, Rosalba Bona, Silvia Reali, Gian Luigi Devoto, Luisa Santoriello, Ronca Agostina, Domizio Serra, Anna Marchese, Eugenio A. Debbia

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2377

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Endemic visceral leishmaniasis in a patient from lower Monferrato hills in provence of Alessandria, Italy

  Luigi Di Matteo, Andrea Pagetto, Clara Lazzara, Andrea Rocchetti

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2378

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• Shigella flexneri-induced vaginitis in a prepubertal children: description of a case

  Antonella Restelli, Manuela Colosimo, Anna Maraschini, Anna Grancini, Rosaria Colombo, Romualdo Grande, Maria Rosa Araldi, Erminio Torresani

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2379

  Published: 30 June 2011

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• A case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria: the importance of an integrated diagnostics

  Paola Notaris, Lorena Montevecchi, Ernesto Delprete

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2380

  Published: 30 June 2011

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