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Enterovirus surveillance of Italian healthy children
Surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is the golden strategy recommended by the WHO to verify the condition of polio eradication in a country. Because of the difficulty to detect all of the expected AF...
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Surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in Italy: 1996–1997
The last case of poliomyelitis due to transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus occurred in Italy in 1982. To achieve the certification of the eradication of poliomyelitis in Italy, an active surveillance of ...
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Apoptosis and proliferation in thyroid carcinoma: correlation with bcl-2 and p53 protein expression
The aim of this study was to determine the apoptotic cell death in 92 thyroid carcinomas of different histotypes (42 papillary, PTC; 12 poorly differentiated, PDC: 21 undifferentiated, UC; and 17 medullary, MC...
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Defective interleukin six expression and responsiveness in human mammary cells transformed by an adeno 5/SV40 hybrid virus
Mammary epithelial cells (MECs) were isolated and cultured from mammary glands of healthy women undergoing reduction mammoplasty. Normal MECs were infected with the transforming hybrid virus adeno-5/SV40. Two ...
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Characterization by T1-oligonucleotide fingerprinting of three strains of human hepatitis A virus isolated in Italy
Three human hepatitis A virus strains, all of them isolated in Italy but one acquired abroad, were analyzed by T1 - RNAase oligonucleotide map** and by monoclonal antibody neutralization. The variation among th...
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Paralytic poliomyelitis in Italy (1981–85)
Fifteen cases of presumptive poliomyelitis occurring in Italy between 1981–85 were studied in order to differentiate between paralysis caused by poliovirus and that of different etiology. Out of seven confirme...