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A nnali
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dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità
A science journal for public health
President of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità
and Responsible Director
Fabrizio Oleari
Editor-in-chief
Enrico Alleva
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Assistant Editor
Federica Napolitani Cheyne
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Editorial Committee
Enrico Alleva, Luca Busani, Pietro Comba, Paola De Castro,
Paola Fattibene, Alessandro Giuliani, Teodora Macchia, Giovanni Rezza,
Emanuele Scafato, Stefano Vella
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Editorial Advisory Board
Dino Amadori
Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Meldola, Italy
Jacqueline N. Crawley
Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, USA
Jean-François Delfraissy
Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le sida et les hépatites virales, Paris, France
Chris Beyrer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
Tony Fletcher
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Sui Huang
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA
Ana Marušic´
Dept of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia
Stefania Maggi
CNR Aging Branch Institute of Neuroscience, Padova, Italy
Francesco M. Marincola
Infectious Disease and Immunogenetics Section, NIH, Bethesda, USA
Juana Martín de las Mulas González-Albo
Dpto. de Anatomía y Anatomía Patológica Comparada, Facultad de Veterinaria, UCO, Córdoba, Spain
Patrick Smeesters,
Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
David Vlahov
School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Bernard Zalc (Boris)
Centre de Recherche de l’Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle epiniere, UPMC, Paris, France
Editing and graphics
Maria Cristina Barbaro, Alessandra Fuglieni, Federica Napolitani Cheyne,
Ilaria Palazzesi, Laura Radiciotti
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Graphich design of the cover: Massimo Delle Femmine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità
The photograph on the cover of this issue represents the morphological effects of fibres with fluoro-edenitic composition on A549 lung
epithelial cells and is published within the article “Mode of action of fibrous amphiboles: the case (Sicily, Italy)” by Giulia Ballan,
Antonella Del Brocco et al. in this issue of Annali.
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Contents
Monographic section
Health impact of fibres with fluoro-edenitic composition:
the case of Biancavilla (Sicily, Italy)
Edited by Caterina Bruno, Biagio Maria Bruni and Pietro Comba
108 Commentary
The fibres with fluoro-edenitic composition in Biancavilla (Sicily, Italy): health
impact and clues for environmental remediation
Pietro Comba, Salvatore Scondotto and Loredana Musmeci
111 Incidence of pleural mesothelioma in a community exposed to fibres with fluoro-
edenitic composition in Biancavilla (Sicily, Italy)
Caterina Bruno, Rosario Tumino, Lucia Fazzo, Giuseppe Cascone, Achille Cernigliaro,
Marco De Santis, Maria Concetta Giurdanella, Carmela Nicita, Patrizia Concetta
Rollo, Salvatore Scondotto, Eugenia Spata, Amerigo Zona and Pietro Comba
119 Environmental concentrations of fibers with fluoro-edenitic composition and pop-
ulation exposure in Biancavilla (Sicily, Italy)
Biagio Maria Bruni, Maria Eleonora Soggiu, Giovanni Marsili, Antonio Brancato,
Marco Inglessis, Lorenzo Palumbo, Augusta Piccardi, Eleonora Beccaloni, Fabrizio
Falleni, Simona Mazziotti Tagliani and Antonio Pacella
127 Health impact of exposure to fibres with fluoro-edenitic composition on
the residents in Biancavilla (Sicily, Italy): mortality and hospitalization from
current data
Susanna Conti, Giada Minelli, Valerio Manno, Ivano Iavarone, Pietro Comba,
Salvatore Scondotto and Achille Cernigliaro
133 Mode of action of fibrous amphiboles: the case of Biancavilla (Sicily, Italy)
Giulia Ballan, Antonella Del Brocco, Stefano Loizzo, Alessia Fabbri, Zaira Maroccia,
Carla Fiorentini and Sara Travaglione
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Original
articles and reviews
140 Use of thermographic imaging in clinical diagnosis of small animal: preliminary notes
Veronica Redaelli, Barbara Tanzi, Fabio Luzi, Damiano Stefanello, Daniela Proverbio,
Lorenzo Crosta and Mauro Di Giancamillo
147 Potential application of thermography (IRT) in animal production and for animal
welfare. A case report of working dogs
Veronica Redaelli, Nicola Ludwig, Leonardo Nanni Costa, Lorenzo Crosta, Jacopo Riva
and Fabio Luzi
153 How are the temporary workers? Quality of live and burn-out in a call center
temporary employment in Italy: a pilot observational study
Alice Mannocci, Alessio Natali, Vittoria Colamesta, Antonio Boccia and Giuseppe La Torre
160 Some comments on the new regulations governing Ethics Committees in Italy
Carlo Petrini
163 Communication with the public in the health-care system: a descriptive study of the
use of social media in Local Health Authorities and public hospitals in Italy
Marina Vanzetta, Ercole Vellone, Alberto Dal Molin, Gennaro Rocco, Maria Grazia De
Marinis and Alvaro Rosaria
171 Cross-sectional seroprevalence of antibodies against 6, 11, 16 and 18 human
papilloma virus (HPV) types among teenagers and young women in Italy
Silvia Lupi, Mauro Bergamini, Enrica Guidi, Pasquale Gregorio and HPV Collaborative
Group
178 The European Research Infrastructures of the ESFRI Roadmap in Biological and
Medical Sciences: status and perspectives
Alessia Calzolari, Arianna Valerio, Francesca Capone, Mariarosaria Napolitano,
Marika Villa, Flavia Pricci, Elena Bravo and Filippo Belardelli
186 Cancer incidence in Italian contaminated sites
Pietro Comba, Paolo Ricci, Ivano Iavarone, Roberta Pirastu, Carlotta Buzzoni, Mario
Fusco, Stefano Ferretti, Lucia Fazzo, Roberto Pasetto, Amerigo Zona, Emanuele Crocetti,
for ISS-AIRTUM Working Group for the study of cancer incidence in contaminated sites
192 Classification and management of animal anthrax outbreaks based on the source
of infection
Antonio Fasanella, Rosanna Adone and Martin Hugh-Jones
199 Book Reviews, Notes and Comments
Edited by Federica Napolitani Cheyne
202 Publications from International Organizations on Public Health
Edited by Anna Maria Rossi