Arnaldo Caruso

RATIONAL As the pandemic seems to start fading away, the flagship annual meeting of the Italian Society of Virology SIV-ISV is back on the agenda. During the past 2 years, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Society was...

Rationale The establishment of the germ theory and the identification of specific microbes as the causative agents of a wide variety of infectious diseases has led to enormous advances, particularly the development of vaccines and, ultimately, antimicrobials. Over 50 years...