RICERCA ITALIANA     

Programmi di ricerca simili:

• 1 - Sviluppo di metodi molecolari e citofluorimetrici per la valutazione in tempo reale della presenza di patogeni emergenti (Campylobacter, E.coli VTEC, Vibrioni) in campioni alimentari e studio delle caratteristiche di virulenza e di antagonismo con probiotici degli stipiti isolati
• 2 - PATOLOGIA INFETTIVA DEI RUMINANTI
• 3 - Microbiologia della malattia parodontale: approcci innovativi per lo studio, il trattamento e la prevenzione.
• 4 - INFEZIONE DEL CANE DA CORONAVIRUS PANTROPICO: ASPETTI EPIDEMIOLOGICI, PATOGENETICI E MOLECOLARI
• 5 - IDENTIFICAZIONE DI NUOVI GENI MALATTIA MEDIANTE ANALISI DEL TRASCRITTOMA (TOM: TRANSCRIPTOME OF MIM)
• 6 - PROTEOMICA E METABOLOMICA PER L'INDIVIDUAZIONE DI INDICATORI SENSIBILI DI SICUREZZA E QUALITA' NELLA FILIERA AGROALIMENTARE
• 7 - Stipiti di Escherichia coli produttori di Shiga-tossine: variabili confondenti nella stima del rischio
• 8 - Geni dell'angiogenesi indotti da ipossia: fattori di suscettibilità nella Sclerosi Laterale Amiotrofica ?
• 9 - Legionella pneumophila come patogeno emergente in Sanità Pubblica: nuove prospettive per la valutazione del rischio e strategie innovative per la prevenzione e il controllo della contaminazione ambientale
• 10 - Approccio integrato al riconoscimento di taxa problematici della meiofauna marina: realizzazione di volumi della serie "Fauna d'Italia" e sviluppo e valutazione di tecniche di DNA-barcoding per l'identificazione di Gastrotrichi, Proseriati e Rotiferi

Classificazione scientifico-disciplinare

• Area scientifico disciplinare: Scienze mediche
  • MALATTIE INFETTIVE
  • IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
• Area scientifico disciplinare: Scienze agrarie e veterinarie
  • ISPEZIONE DEGLI ALIMENTI DI ORIGINE ANIMALE
  • MALATTIE INFETTIVE DEGLI ANIMALI DOMESTICI

Classificazione brevettuale

• HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
  • FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES A23B TO A23J; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OF NUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT (shaping or working, not fully covered by this subclass, A23P); PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL
• PHYSICS
  • MEASURING (counting G06M); TESTING
    • INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (separating components of materials in general B01D, B01J, B03, B07; apparatus fully provided for in a single other subclass, see the relevant subclass e.g. B01L; measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or micro-organisms C12M, C12Q; investigation of foundation soil in situ E02D1/00; sensing humidity changes for compensating measurements of other variables or for compensating readings of instruments for variations in humidity, see G01D or the relevant subclass for the variable measured; testing or determining the properties of structures G01M; measuring or investigating electric or magnetic properties of materials G01R; systems or methods in general, using reception or emission of radiowaves or other waves and based on propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time, direction of propagation, G01S; determining sensivity, graininess, or density of photographic materials G03C5/02; testing component parts of nuclear reactors G21C17/00; [N: controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; measuring degree of ionisation of ionised gases, i.e. plasma H05H1/00A; testing electrographic developer properties G03G15/08H6])

Classificazione geografica

• Regione: Sicilia

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Parole Chiave

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; CAMPYLOBACTER; TIPIZZAZIONE MOLECOLARE; EPIDEMIOLOGIA; MALATTIE TRASMESSE DA ALIMENTI; RETE DI SORVEGLIANZA; INFEZIONI EMERGENTI