Publication 2013

Ippoliti C., Gilbert M., Vanhuysse S., Goffredo M., Satta G., Wolff E., Conte A. 2013. Relationship between landscape and Culicoides imicola in the Sardinia and Tuscany regions of Italy. Geospatial Health 8 (1), pp. 267-277.
Giovannini A., Rivezzi G., Carideo P., Ceci R., Diletti G., Ippoliti C., Migliorati G., Piscitelli P., Ripani A., Salini R., Scortichini G. 2013. Dioxins levels in breast milk of women living in Campania region: assessment of environmental risk factors. Chemosphere, 94, 76-84. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.09.017. Epub 2013 Oct 9.
Mardulyn P., Goffredo M., Conte A., Hendrickx G., Meiswinkel R., Balenghien T., Sghaier S., Lohr Y., Gilbert M. 2013. Climate change and the spread of vector-borne diseases: using approximate Bayesian computation to compare invasion scenarios for the bluetongue virus vector Culicoides imicola in Italy. Molecular Ecology. 222 (9), 2456-66. doi: 10.1111/mec.12264. Epub 2013 Mar 15.
Peters J., Conte A., Van doninck J., Verhoest N.E.C., De Clercq E., Goffredo M., De Baets B., Hendrickx G., Ducheyne E. 2013. On the relation between soil moisture dynamics and the geographical distribution of Culicoides imicola. Ecohydrology. Article first published online: 25 Mar 2013, DOI: 10.1002/eco.1383.
Calistri P., Ippoliti C., Candeloro L., Benjelloun A., El Harrak M., Bouchra B., Danzetta M.L., Di Sabatino D., Conte A. 2013. Analysis of climatic and environmental variables associated with the occurrence of West Nile virus in Morocco. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 110, 549– 553.
Lorusso A., Sghaier S., Carvelli A., Di Gennaro A., Leone A., Marini V., Pelini S., Marcacci M., Rocchigiani A.M., Puggioni G., Savini G. 2013. Bluetongue virus serotypes 1 and 4 in Sardinia during autumn 2012: New incursion or re-infection with old strains? Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 19, 81-7. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.06.028.
Ferrer E., Calistri P., Fonseca O., Ippoliti C., Alfonso P., Iannetti S., Abeledo M.A., Fernández O., Percedo M.I., Pérez A. 2013. Estimation of the sensitivity of the surveillance system for avian influenza in the western region of Cuba. Veterinaria Italiana 2013, 49 (1), 99-107.
Scacchia M., Di Provvido A., Ippoliti C., Kefle U., Tekleghiorghi Sebhatu T., D’Angelo A., De Massis f. 2013. Prevalence of Brucellosis in Dairy cattle from the main dairy farming regions of Eritrea. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 80 (1), E1-E4, 4 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ojvr.v80i1.448
Calistri P., Conte a., Natale F., Possenti L., Savini L., Danzetta M.L., Iannetti S., Giovannini A. 2013. Systems for prevention and control of epidemic emergencies. Veterinaria Italiana, 49 (3), 255-261. doi: 10.12834/VetIt.1206.06.
Calistri P., Iannetti S., Atzeni M., Di Bella C., Schembri P., Giovannini A. 2013. Risk factors for the persistence of bovine brucellosis in Sicily from 2008 to 2010. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 110, 329– 334.
Colangeli P., Iannetti S., Ruocco L., Forlizzi L., Cioci D. and Calistri P. 2013. The Italian Information System on Zoonoses Data Collection. Zoonoses and Public Health. 60, 182-188.
Calistri P., Narcisi V., Atzeni M., De Massis F., Tittarelli M., Mercante M.T., Ruggieri E., Scacchia M. 2013. Dourine Reemergence in Italy. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science 33, 83-89.
Pascucci I., Di Provvido A., Cammà C., Di Francesco G., Calistri P., Tittarelli M., Ferri N., Scacchia M., Caporale V. 2013. Diagnosis of dourine in outbreaks in Italy. Veterinary Parasitology. 193, 30– 38.
Migliorati G., Prencipe V.A., Iannetti L., Di Giannatale E., Matteucci O., Salini R. & Calistri P. 2013. Survey of domestic food purchases and related home handling practices in the Abruzzo region (central Italy): data collection and analysis through a language-independent classification system. Food Control, Ehead of print . doi: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.09.008.
Garofolo G., Di Giannatale E., De Massis F., Zilli K., Ancora M., Cammà C., Calistri P., Foster J.T. 2013. Investigating genetic diversity of Brucella abortus and Brucella melitensis in Italy with MLVA-16. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 19, 59–70.
Calistri P., Iannetti S., Danzetta M. L., Narcisi V., Cito F., Di Sabatino D., Bruno R., Sauro F., Atzeni M., Carvelli A., Giovannini A. 2013. The Components of ‘One World – One Health’ Approach. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 60 (Suppl. 2), 4–13.
Tran A., Ippoliti C., Balenghien T., Conte A., Gely M., Calistri P., Goffredo M., Baldet T., Chevalier V. 2013. A Geographical Information System-Based Multicriteria Evaluation to Map Areas at Risk for Rift Valley Fever Vector-Borne Transmission in Italy. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 60 (Suppl. 2), 14–23.
Cito F., Narcisi V., Danzetta M. L., Iannetti S., Di Sabatino D., Bruno R., Carvelli A., Atzeni M., Sauro F., Calistri P. 2013. Analysis of Surveillance Systems in Place in European Mediterranean Countries for West Nile Virus (WNV) and Rift Valley Fever (RVF). Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 60 (Suppl. 2), 40–44.
Rivezzi G., Piscitelli P., Scortichini G., Giovannini A., Diletti G., Migliorati G., Ceci R., Rivezzi G., Cirasino L., Carideo P., Black D.M., Garzillo C., Giani U. 2013. A general model of dioxin contamination in breast milk: results from a study on 94 women from the Caserta and Naples areas in Italy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 8, 10(11), 5953-70.
Di Giannatale E., Alessiani A., Sauro F., Sbraccia F., Croce G., Nissim A., Carnevale A., Migliorati G. 2013. Epidemiological study of an outbreak of norovirus in a rest home in Italy. Veterinaria Italiana, 49 (2), 175-180.
De Santis R., Ancora M., De Massis F., Ciammaruconi A., Zilli K., Di Giannatale E., Fillo S., Lista F.. 2013. Molecular Strain Typing of Brucella abortus isolates from Italy by two different Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis Techniques. Molecular Biotechnology, 55 (2), 101-10. doi: 10.1007/s12033-013-9659-3.
Monaco F., Goffredo M., Federici V., Carvelli A., Capobianco Dondona A., Polci A., Pinoni C., Danzetta M.L., Selli L., Bonci M., Quaglia M. & Calistri P. 2013. First cases of Schmallenberg virus in Italy: surveillance strategies. Veterinaria Italiana, 49 (3), 269-275. doi: 10.12834/VetIt.1101.11.

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