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MIS-C and co-infection with P. vivax and P. falciparum in a child: a clinical conundrum.
2022
Abstract Background The ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic represents an unprecedented global health challenge. Many COVID-19 symptoms are similar to symptoms that can occur in other infections. Malaria should always be considered in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection returning from endemic areas. Case presentation We present the first case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) and Plasmodium vivax-falciparum and SARS-CoV2 coinfection in children. Despite clearance of parassitaemia and a negative COVID-19 nasopharyngeal PCR, the patient’s clinical conditions worsened. The World Health Organization (WHO) criteria were used to make the diagnosis of MIS-C. Treatment wi…
The diet of Saker Falcon Falco cherrug overwintering in the Mediterranean (Sicily)
2014
The winter diet of Saker Falcon Falco cherrug in the Mediterranean basin is unknown. Thanks to satellite tracking of two individuals from Hungary to Sicily, during winters 2012-13 and 2013-14 we identified the roost and collected 40 pellets. Pellet analysis allowed identification of 124 prey belonging to 29 taxa. Saker Falcons during winter shift their alimentation to insects and birds, with respect to mammals in the breeding season, plundering from small beetles to rabbits. Insects, especially Orthoptera and Coleoptera, were the most frequent prey in both years, totalling the 66.9% of remains. Among vertebrates the Saker Falcons preyed upon birds (21.77%), mammals (5.65%) and reptiles (4.8…
Climate Effects on Breeding Phenology of Peregrine and Lanner Falcons in the Mediterranean
2022
We explored the effects of weather on the timing and reproduction of the Mediterranean Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus brookei and the Lanner Falcon F. biarmicus feldeggii living on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. We found that the start date of incubation has changed during 1979–2019 and analysed whether incubation timing affected the productivity of both populations and whether the change of incubation date and the quality of breeding sites depended on climatic conditions. Overall spring temperature and rainfall increased on Sicily and the incubation date of the Peregrine and the Lanner Falcon has shifted to be about one week later over the time period 1979 to 2019. Linear mixed mod…
Factors affecting the diet of Peregrine Falcon in Italy
2016
The diet of top predators can provide useful information on phenology and abundance of their prey. The cosmopolitan and specialist Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) is an ideal model to assess whether food changes have occurred in the long-term. In this contribution, we reviewed all available literature on Peregrine Falcon diet in Italy which contained 11 detailed datasets useful for our review, and also included analysis of pellets, collected at three breeding sites of Sicily during 2014 and 2015. These data allowed us to shed light on the Peregrine Falcon’s diet over the last forty years (1978-2015). We calculated the numerical and biomass percentage of the resident and not-resident pre…
A comparison of peregrine Falco peregrinus and lanner Falco biarmicus trophic niche in Sicily
2017
Prey availability is a crucial factor for the reproductive success of apex predators and the analysis of their diets can provide meaningful information about the quality of their habitats. In Sicily the declining lanner falcon Falco biarmicus feldeggii and the increasing peregrine falcon Falco peregrines brookei share similar habitats and trophic needs. By studying their current and past diets, we have investigated whether the characteristics of their foraging ecology could explain these different demographic trends. In 2014-2016, we identified 805 peregrine and 250 lanner Vertebrate prey from 15 peregrine and 6 lanner nests, and compared our dataset with previous data from Sicily (Peregrin…
Breeding abundance of threatened raptors as estimated from occurrence data
2008
A model derived from the negative binomial distribution (NBD) has been proposed to solve the problem of predicting abundance of species from occurrence maps. The viability of NBD was explored for predicting the breeding abundance of five threatened species of raptor: Bonelli's Eagle Hieraaetus fasciatus, Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos, Peregrine Falco peregrinus, Lanner Falco biarmicus and Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni. First, the accuracy of the NBD was tested in a reference area where the species abundance and occurrence were known through intensive field surveys. Next, an estimation of regional abundance derived from NBD was made for each species. These estimates were then compared to th…
Attraversamento trasversale Torre dell’Orsa - Aeroporto - Statale - Cinisi
2014
Lʼarea a sud-est dellʼaeroporto di Palermo è in rapida trasformazione: le espansioni edilizie di Cinisi e Villagrazia di Carini si sono saldate in una “campagna urbanizzata” continua, nel 2001 è stato inaugurato il tratto di metropolitana di Palermo che da Piraineto giunge a Punta Raisi con fermata intermedia “Tonnara Orsa”, la Società di gestione dellʼaeroporto Falcone-Borsellino (Gesap) ha previsto la realizzazione di un nuovo ingresso a sud dellʼaeroporto in corrispondenza del fuso racchiuso fra lʼautostrada A29 e la linea ferroviaria, a sud-ovest dello svincolo autostradale di Villagrazia di Carini, in località Bosco Tagliato, sorgerà un centro commerciale. I cambiamenti in atto e le ce…
Lo spessore del confine, tra aeroporto e ferrovia. Progetto per l’aeroporto Falcone-Borsellino di Palermo
2007
Progetto di riqualificazione per una vasta area a confine con l'aeroporto Falcone e Borsellino di Palermo redatto in occasione del Seminario di progettazione e workshop "Aeroporto e dintorni", Infrastrutture, paesaggi, architetture, svoltosi a Cinisi (PA) tra febbraio e giugno 2004.
Nuovi paesaggi per la campagna urbana
2008
Il volume raccoglie piu' contributi di studiosi sul tema della Riserva Reale di Boccadifalco a Palermo, per la costituzione di un nuovo parco urbano.
Il Parco Pedemontano di Ponente (Riserva Reale di Boccadifalco ed aree limitrofe): alcune motivazioni e considerazioni
2009
Saggio sul recupero a Parco della riserva reale di Boccadifalco a Palermo