2. Where is it located (include both address and geographical location)?
N46° 11' 53.50", E9° 1' 10.25"
4. The organizational structure of each facility
(ii) Division of personnel
(iii) Division of personnel by category
Bacteriology, mycology, molecular microbiology, microbial ecology, entomology, vector biology.
Canton of Ticino.
Research | 10 % |
(vii) What are the funding levels for the following programme areas:
Publication in open literature.
Di Nezio F., Beney C., Roman S., Danza F., Buetti-Dinh A., Tonolla M., Storelli N. (2021) Anoxygenic photo- and chemosynthesis of phototrophic sulfur bacteria from an alpine meromictic lake, FEMS Microbiology Ecology. fiab010, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab010.
Ripellino P, Pianezzi E, Martinetti G, Zehnder C, Mathis B, Giannini P, Forrer N, Merlani G, Dalton HR, Petrini O, Bihl F, Fontana S, Gobbi C. (2021) Control of raw pork liver sausage production can reduce the prevalence of HEV infection. Pathogens. 10:107. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10020107.
Kubacki J., Hardmeier I., Qi W., Flacio E., Tonolla M., Fraefel C. (2021) Complete Genome Sequence of a Rhabdovirus Strain from Culex Mosquitos Collected in Southern Switzerland. Microbiology Resource Announcements 10 (1)_e01234-20. https://mra.asm.org/content/ga/10/1/e01234-20.full.pdf.
Zare-Shahraki, M.; Keivany, Y.; Ebrahimi, E.; Bruder, A.; Flotemersch, J. & Blocksom, K.A. 2020. Length-weight relationships of seven fish species from the Karun River system, southwestern Iran. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 7(4): 352-355.
Brackmann M., Leib S., Tonolla M., Schürch N. and Wittwer M. (2020) Antimicrobial resistance classification using MALDI-TOF-MS is not that easy: lessons from vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 26(3):391-393. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.10.027.
Müller P, Engeler L, Vavassori L, Suter T, Guidi V, Gschwind M, Tonolla M. and Flacio E. (2020) Surveillance of invasive Aedes mosquitoes along Swiss traffic axes reveals different dispersal modes for Aedes albopictus and Ae. japonicus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 14(9): e0008705. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008705
Tenti, P., Samuele, R.& Storelli, N. (2020) Molybdate to Prevent the Formation of Sulfide during the Process of Biogas Production. Journal of Applied Microbiological Research, vol. 3 (2) pp.21-29.
Kubacki, J., Flacio, E., Qi, W., Guidi, V., Tonolla, M.& Fraefel, C. (2020) Viral Metagenomic Analysis of Aedes albopictus Mosquitos from Southern Switzerland. Viruses, vol. 12 (9).
Fouque, F., Guidi, V., Lazzaro, M., Ravasi, D., Martinetti-Lucchini, G., Merlani, G., Tonolla, M.& Flacio, E. (2020) Emerging Aedes-borne infections in southern Switzerland: Preparedness planning for surveillance and intervention. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, vol. 37 pp.101748-101748
Bizio E, Cocchi L, Petrini O, Vescovi L. (2020) Elementi chimici nel genere Inocybe: un aiuto alla tassonomia? Quaderni Natura e Biodiversità 15, Vol. 2. ISPRA, Roma. ISBN: 978-88-448-1025-2
Martignier A., De Respinis S., Filella M, Segovia-Campos I., Marin B., Günther G. Barja F., Tonolla M., Jaquet J-M., Melkonian M., Ariztegui D. (2020) Biomineralization capacities of Chlorodendrophyceae: correlation between chloroplast morphology and the distribution of micropearls in the cell. Protist 171_125760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2020.125760.pdf
The Laboratory of Applied Microbiology is the Regional Competence Center South of the Alps responsible for the primary analysis of samples suspicious of a bioterror-related background.
For further information please visit (website in Italian):
http://www.supsi.ch/lma
(9) Including viruses and prions.