VIROLOGICAL INVESTIGATION IN SYNANTHROPIC RODENTS IN NORTH ITALY

VIROLOGICAL INVESTIGATION IN SYNANTHROPIC RODENTS IN NORTH ITALY

Intro: Several rodents, including mice and the brown rat, are synanthropic animals usually found in rural and urban environments in contact with other animals and humans.Rodents are natural reservoirs of infectious agents and could harbour a plethora of zoonotic pathogens of public health importance.Taking advantage of a parallel study on presence

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Thermomechanical Analysis of a Reactor Pressure Vessel under Pressurized Thermal Shock Caused by Inadvertent Actuation of the Safety Injection System

The damage induced pressurized thermal shock (PTS) may pose to a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) is a critical safety requirement assessed as part of the ageing management programme of pressurized water reactors (PWRs).A number of researches have studied PTS initiated mainly by postulated accidents such as loss of coolant accidents (LOCAs).However, i

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Plastic Polymers and Antibiotic Resistance in an Antarctic Environment (Ross Sea): Are We Revealing the Tip of an Iceberg?

Microbial colonization of plastic polymers in Antarctic environments is an under-investigated issue.While several studies are documenting the spread of plastic pollution in the Ross Sea, whether the formation of a plastisphere (namely the complex microbial assemblage colonizing plastics) may favor the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) i

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