In January 2013, 3 strains of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from one mother and her newborn and a second infant arrived at the Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Latium and Tuscany. At the same time the Local Health Unit Rome B sampled at retail a smoked salmon that was suspected to be involved in the transmission of the disease. The sample was tested for the presence of L. mon...

This contribution is the first of a series publications by authors to systematically disclose wealth material evidence collected during some 30 years fieldwork in Pontine region Region Project. project has, since its inception mid-1980s, investigated more than 36 km2 terrain across all major geomorphological units region, largely means systematic surface investigations. During these investigati...

Abstract This paper presents a preliminary study of the Middle Palaeolithic lithic industries recovered at six selected open-air sites in Latium region (central Italy), part regional cultural complex known as “Pontinian”. The pedo-stratigraphic analysis combined with 40Ar/ 39Ar age constraints on permits us to provide for first time geomorphological and chronological (300–40 ka) framework sever...

Within the framework of hypersaline environments, Saline di Tarquinia salterns (Latium, Italy) represent an interesting case study from ecological, naturalistic, and conservationist perspectives. We studied macrozoobenthic community zonation related to main environmental parameters, with particular emphasis on beetle species Nebrioporus ceresyi (Aubé, 1836), one few Dytiscidae among Italian fau...