Gianluca Di Micco

Oct 14, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Pierpaolo di Micco |Gianluca Di Micco |Guanghua Zhai

Zhenxing Li Zhaoru Zhang* Chong Chen Department of Infectious Diseases, The Affiliated Chaohu Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China Background: Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging and life-threatening infectious disease caused by SFTS virus.

Jul 18, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Pierpaolo di Micco |Gianluca Di Micco |Kun Huang

1. IntroductionHaemophilia is a common sex-chromosome recessive hereditary haemorrhagic disease caused by a deficiency of coagulation factor VIII or IX. Joint bleeding is the most commonly reported type of haemorrhage in haemophilia patients, which could lead to synovial hypertrophy and direct bleeding-related osteochondral changes. The elbows, knees, and ankles are the most affected among all joints in haemophilia.

Jun 26, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Pierpaolo di Micco |Egidio Imbalzano |Gianluca Di Micco

IntroductionNeonates in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), especially low-birth-weight and premature infants, are more likely to develop nosocomial infections due to various invasive procedures, long hospital stays, and weak innate immunity (1). The study of 29 European countries showed that the nosocomial infection rate of NICUs was 10.7%, which was significantly higher than that of neonatal wards (3.5%) (2).