Arnaldo Caruso

Rationale The northern Italian cities of Bergamo and Brescia take up their joint status as Italy’s Capital of Culture 2023. Bypassing the usual application process, the Italian parliament approved the candidature in “a symbol of hope and rebirth” for Bergamo...

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...