BENV
Bollettino Epidemiologico Nazionale Veterinario

Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonotic disease caused by Gram negative bacteria of the genus Leptospira spp. The taxonomy of Leptospira is complex and it is based on two different classification criteria. Serologically, there are more than 300 leptospiral serovars recognised... 

C. Tassinato, E. Mazzotta, L. Lucchese, M.B. Boniotti, C. Bertasio, M. D’Incau, L. Ceglie, L. Bellinati, M. Mazzucato, A. Natale

It seemed a morning similar to the others for those boys who were on their way to the bus stop to go to school, but an unexpected and terrible image made their eyes widen: hanging by the hind legs on the shelter was the corpse of a wolf from which a trickle of blood dripped ...       

Rosario Fico, Lorena Di Benedetto,
Francesca  Maccagnan,
Giulia Rosa

Streptococcus equi subsp. Zooepidemicus (SEZ) are β-haemolytic gram-positive bacteria (Fig.1). It belongs to group C of Lancefield, and it shares up to 98% of homologues DNA sequences with Streptococcus equi (S. equi) (Pelkonen et al., 2013). SEZ is an opportunistic pathogen ...

Maria Elisabetta De Angelis,
Serena Bosica