Validation of AmpliSeq NGS Panel for <i>BRCA1</i> and <i>BRCA2</i> Variant Detection in Canine Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Mammary Tumors by Daniela Di Giacomo, Marco Di Domenico, Sabrina Vanessa Patrizia Defourny, Daniela Malatesta, Giovanni Di Teodoro, Michele Martino, Antonello Viola, Nicola D’Alterio, Cesare Cammà, Paola Modesto, Antonio Petrini

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Rapid Identification of Beached Marine Plastics Pellets Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: A Promising Tool for the Quantification of Coastal Pollution by Roberta Giugliano, Bruno Cocciaro, Francesco Poggialini, Stefano Legnaioli, Vincenzo Palleschi, Marina Locritani, Silvia Merlino

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Black soldier fly larvae used for environmental enrichment purposes: Can they affect the growth, slaughter performance, and blood chemistry of medium-growing chickens? by Valentina Bongiorno, Marta Gariglio, Valeria Zambotto, Eleonora Erika Cappone, Ilaria Biasato, Manuela Renna, Claudio Forte, Carl Coudron, Stefania Bergagna, Francesco Gai, Achille Schiavone

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Book Review, Per non scoprirlo mangiando… ,Maria Caramelli by Manuel Graziani

“…Un incremento di malattie alimentari che, per paradosso, è frutto dell'evoluzione di un mondo senza più frontiere nel quale gli scambi di animali, mangimi e materie prime di origine animale sono oramai incontrollabili.Nonostante i consumatori europei pongano i rischi chimici (come gli additivi) in cima alle preoccupazioni per la propria sicurezza alimentare, secondo la FAO e l'OMS i pericoli maggiori sono invece di natura microbiologica, riguardano cioè virus e batteri in grado di provocare intossicazioni e infezioni con conseguenze anche drammatiche: microrganismi spesso difficili da identificare e in continua espansione, favoriti dalla globalizzazione, dalla trasformazione delle nostre abitudini, dalla complessità dei processi di produzione e distribuzione dei cibi.L'agile libro della dott.ssa Maria Caramelli, Direttore generale dell'IZS di Piemonte Liguria e Valle d'Aosta ed esperta di sicurezza alimentare (una delle più autorevoli studiose italiane di BSE), indaga il vasto mondo delle malattie alimentari partendo dai casi che hanno scatenato allarmi sanitari e crisi economiche di vaste proporzioni scuotendo mass media e opinione pubblica: mucca pazza (BSE), influenza aviaria, diossina nei maiali, mozzarella blu "color puffo", ricotta rosa, fino all'epidemia tedesca del batterio killer nei germogli che tra maggio e luglio del 2011 ha contagiato circa 4.000 persone e provocato 46 decessi. …”
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DNAJB9 Is a Reliable Immunohistochemical Marker of Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis: Evaluation of Diagnostic Efficacy in a Large Series of Kidney Biopsies by Alessandro Gambella, Chiara Pitino, Antonella Barreca, Alberto Nocifora, Manuela Maria Giarin, Luca Bertero, Luigi Biancone, Dario Roccatello, Mauro Papotti, Paola Cassoni

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Reproducibility and Feasibility of Classification and National Guidelines for Histological Diagnosis of Canine Mammary Gland Tumours: A Multi-Institutional Ring Study by Serenella Papparella, Maria Ines Crescio, Valeria Baldassarre, Barbara Brunetti, Giovanni P. Burrai, Cristiano Cocumelli, Valeria Grieco, Selina Iussich, Lorella Maniscalco, Francesca Mariotti, Francesca Millanta, Orlando Paciello, Roberta Rasotto, Mariarita Romanucci, Alessandra Sfacteria, Valentina Zappulli

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A Tool for the Automatic Aggregation and Validation of the Results of Physically Based Distributed Slope Stability Models by Maria Alexandra Bulzinetti, Samuele Segoni, Giulio Pappafico, Elena Benedetta Masi, Guglielmo Rossi, Veronica Tofani

“…The DTVT tool was tested in an alert zone of the Aosta Valley (northern Italy) to investigate the high sensitivity of the results to the values selected for the two thresholds. …”
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Review on colonization of residents and staff in Italian long-term care facilities by multidrug-resistant bacteria compared with other European countries by Richard Aschbacher, Elisabetta Pagani, Massimo Confalonieri, Claudio Farina, Paolo Fazii, Francesco Luzzaro, Pier Giorgio Montanera, Aurora Piazza, Laura Pagani

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Slope-Scale Evolution Categorization of Deep-Seated Slope Deformation Phenomena with Sentinel-1 Data by Davide Cardone, Martina Cignetti, Davide Notti, Danilo Godone, Daniele Giordan, Fabiana Calò, Simona Verde, Diego Reale, Eugenio Sansosti, Gianfranco Fornaro

“…The methodology was tested on two differently oriented phenomena: the mainly north–south-oriented Croix de Fana and the mainly east–west-oriented Valtournenche DsGSD, located in the Aosta Valley Region, northern Italy. The results show a variation in the kinematic behavior between the morpho-structural domains, while also considering any other superimposed surficial deformations. …”
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Spectrum of Kidney Injury Following COVID-19 Disease: Renal Biopsy Findings in a Single Italian Pathology Service by Alessandro Gambella, Antonella Barreca, Luigi Biancone, Dario Roccatello, Licia Peruzzi, Luca Besso, Carolina Licata, Angelo Attanasio, Mauro Papotti, Paola Cassoni

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Antibiotic resistance, plasmids, and virulence-associated markers in human strains of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolated in Italy by Aurora Garcia-Fernandez, Anna Janowicz, Francesca Marotta, Maira Napoleoni, Sergio Arena, Sara Primavilla, Monica Pitti, Romina Romantini, Fiorella Tomei, Giuliano Garofolo, Laura Villa

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Genetic correlations and causal effects of fighting ability on fitness traits in cattle reveal antagonistic trade-offs by Beniamino Tuliozi, Francesco Tiezzi, Ivana Schoepf, Enrico Mancin, Nadia Guzzo, Roberto Mantovani, Cristina Sartori

“…However, if a trait giving a social advantage is suspected to affect the expression of other traits, MTM could provide some bias, that structural equation models (SEM) could highlight. We used Aosta Chestnut-Black Pied cattle to investigate whether the fighting ability of cows (the capability of winning social dominance interactions) is genetically correlated with health and fitness traits. …”
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A physically based correction for stray light in Brewer spectrophotometer data analysis by V. Savastiouk, H. Diémoz, C. T. McElroy

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Micro- and nanoplastics in soils: Tracing research progression from comprehensive analysis to ecotoxicological effects by Hongdou Liu, Lizhen Cui, Tong Li, Calogero Schillaci, Xiufang Song, Paolo Pastorino, Hongtao Zou, Xiaoyong Cui, Zhihong Xu, Peter Fantke

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Estimating Afforestation Area Using Landsat Time Series and Photointerpreted Datasets by Alice Cavalli, Saverio Francini, Ronald E. McRoberts, Valentina Falanga, Luca Congedo, Paolo De Fioravante, Mauro Maesano, Michele Munafò, Gherardo Chirici, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza

“…The administrative region with the largest afforested area was Sardinia, with 260,670 ± 58,522 ha, while the smallest area of 28,644 ± 12,114 ha was in Valle d’Aosta. Considering elevation classes of 200 m, the greatest afforestation area was between 400 and 600 m above sea level, where it was 549,497 ± 84,979 ha. …”
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Endovascular treatment of femoro-popliteal disease with the Supera stent: results of a multicenter study by Giuseppe Guzzardi, Angelo Spinazzola, Gianluca Cangiano, Massimiliano Natrella, Andrea Paladini, Carla Porta, Luca Boccalon, Davide Negroni, Giovanni Leati, Domenico Laganà, Riccardo Guglielmi, Alessandro Carriero

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<i>Clostridioides difficile</i> in Calves in Central Italy: Prevalence, Molecular Typing, Antimicrobial Susceptibility and Association with Antibiotic Administration by Francesca Blasi, Carmela Lovito, Elisa Albini, Luca Bano, Gastone Dalmonte, Ilenia Drigo, Carmen Maresca, Francesca Romana Massacci, Serenella Orsini, Sara Primavilla, Eleonora Scoccia, Silvia Tofani, Claudio Forte, Chiara Francesca Magistrali

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Comparative analysis of two genomes of Chlamydia pecorum isolates from an Alpine chamois and a water buffalo by Sara Rigamonti, Anna Maria Floriano, Erika Scaltriti, David Longbottom, Morag Livingstone, Francesco Comandatore, Stefano Pongolini, Lorenzo Capucci, Maria Lucia Mandola, Moira Bazzucchi, Paola Prati, Nadia Vicari

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Does the provision of live black soldier fly and yellow mealworm larvae improve Muscovy duck welfare? by Marta Gariglio, Sihem Dabbou, Manuela Renna, Ilaria Biasato, Sara Bellezza Oddon, Marco Meneguz, Raul Daniel Miazzo, Stefania Bergagna, Elena Colombino, Elisabetta Macchi, Achille Schiavone

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Monitoring and Management of the Pine Processionary Moth in the North-Western Italian Alps by Chiara Ferracini, Valerio Saitta, Cristina Pogolotti, Ivan Rollet, Flavio Vertui, Luca Dovigo

“…This 6-year investigation (2014–2019), carried out in Aosta Valley (NW Italy), on <i>Pinus sylvestris</i> L. aimed to: (i) Monitor the PPM population with pheromone-baited funnel traps; (ii) assess the infestation index (0–5 classes) according to the degree of defoliation; and (iii) apply control strategies, namely <i>Bacillus thuringiensis</i> var. …”
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