Maedi Visna (MV) is a viral infection in sheep caused by Lentivirus and characterised long incubation period, slow progression, weight loss eventually death. TMEM154 was reported the ovine as major candidate gene associated with host susceptibility/resistance. The aim of this study to verify prevalence MV within Sicilian herds Valle del Belìce breed using an ELISA serological test estimate freq...

The Gallo-Italic dialects widespread within central–eastern Sicily represent the result of medieval immigration settlers from southern Piedmont and Liguria, after Norman conquest island (1061–1091). As far as language spoken by these communities is concerned, an oddity arises: most their lexical syntactic features developed further through contact with neighboring varieties (such as, notably, S...

Seven consecutive Sicilian patients with boutonneuse fever but without clinical symptoms of hepatic disease underwent hepatic biopsy and had similar hepatic lesions. Foci of hepatocellular necrosis were infiltrated with predominantly mononuclear leukocytes. No intact Rickettsia conorii were identified in the tissues by immunofluorescence. The apparent high frequency of viscerotropism in boutonn...

Surnames of grandparents were collected from children in the primary schools of the Albanian-Italian, Croat-Italian and Greek-Italian villages of southern Italy and Sicily. The coefficients of relationships by isonymy show almost no relationship with ethnicity. Ethnolinguistic minorities of southern Italy and Sicily are geographically subdivided into two main clusters: the first cluster compris...

The secretory protein, uteroglobin-related protein 1 (UGRP1), is expressed mainly in the lung and trachea and recently has been implicated in asthma. The -112G to A transition in the promoter was reported to be associated with asthma in the Japanese population. However, this has not been replicated in other studies. The aim of this study was to find the association of the UGRP1 gene polymorphis...

Fetal hemoglobin (Hb F) is characteristic of the fetal development period. However, in some genetic conditions, such as hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin (HPFH) and delta-beta thalassemia (δβ-thalassemia), Hb F continues to be produced in adulthood. We evaluated the frequency of two mutations of HPFH, HPFH-1 and HPFH-2 African, and two mutations in δβ-thalassemia, Sicilian and Spa...