Published papers (selection) (click to download the pdf)

Pugliese N., Maimone F., Scrascia M., Materu S. F., Pazzani C. 2009. SXT-related integrating conjugative element and IncC plasmids in Vibrio cholerae O1 strains in Eastern Africa. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 63 (3): 438-442

Scrascia M., Pugliese N., Maimone F., A. Mohamud K.A., Ali I.A., Grimont P.A.D., Pazzani C. 2009. Cholera in Ethiopia in the 1990s: Epidemiologic Patterns, Clonal Analysis and Antimicrobial Resistance. Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 299 (5): 367-372

Scrascia M, Pugliese N, Maimone F, Mohamud K.A., Grimont P.A.D., Materu S.F., Pazzani C. 2009. Clonal relationship among Vibrio cholerae O1 El tor strains isolated in Somalia. Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 299 (3): 203-207

Scrascia M, Maimone F, Mohamud KA, Materu SF, Grimont F, Grimont PAD, Pazzani C. 2006. Clonal relationship among Vibrio Cholerae O1 El Tor strains causing the largest cholera epidemic in Kenya in the late 1990s. J Clin Microbiol 44 (9):3401-4

Pazzani C, Scrascia M, Dionisi AM, Maimone F, Luzzi I. 2006. Molecular epidemiology and origin of cholera reemergence in Italy and Albania in the 1990s. Res Microbiol 157 (6):508-12

Scrascia M, Forcillo M, Maimone F, Pazzani C. 2003. Susceptibility to rifaximin of Vibrio cholerae strains from different geographical areas.  J Antimicrob Chemother 52 (2):303-5

Bartoleschi C, Pardini MC, Scaringi C, Martino MC, Pazzani C, Bernardini ML. 2002. Selection of Shigella flexneri candidate virulence genes specifically induced in bacteria resident in host cell cytoplasm. Cell Microbiol 4(9):613-26

Di Pierro M, Lu R, Uzzau S, Wang W, Margaretten K, Pazzani C, Maimone F, and Fasano A. 2001. Zonula Occludens Toxin Structure-Function Analysis. Identification of the fragment biologically active on tight junctions and of the zonulin receptor binding domain. J Biol Chem 276 (22): 19160-19165

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