Michele Russo,Loredana Iasimone,Ersilia Ambrosino
Michele Russo
Bacterial infections cause 30% of deaths in the elderly and are the most frequent cause of hospitalization in elderly patients. Diagnosis of infection can be difficult because aged patients may have neither fever nor leucocytosis; most pati...
[Intestinal mucosa immunity and oral vaccines especially regarding E. coli vaccines: a review] [0.03%]
Fernando Aiuti,Filippo Iebba
Fernando Aiuti
The aim of this work was a review of literature with regard to the mucosal immunity, the oral vaccines and the bacterial lysates. The Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue (GALT) include effector and inductive sites and is constituted by organized...
Silvano Esposito
Silvano Esposito
Editorial
Le infezioni in medicina. 2002 Dec;10(4):189-90. DOI: 2002
[Observations on the 1348 plague epidemic. Measures taken to combat its tragic effects and avoid epidemic recrudescence] [0.03%]
Sergio Sabbatani
Sergio Sabbatani
When the "Black Death" swept through Europe from southern France in 1348, in the short space of two years the Europeans were hit by one of the most serious epidemics ever recorded in human history. Yersinia pestis reached Europe by sea, its...
Maria Dorrucci,Barbara Suligoi,Patrizio Pezzotti et al.
Maria Dorrucci et al.
Carmine Coppola,Giovanna Ferraioli,Ferdinando Scarano
Carmine Coppola
An immunocompetent 62-year-old woman presented with cutaneous lesions over her right arm and the hypogastrium. The diagnosis of cutaneous cryptococcosis was made on the basis of the demonstration and isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans fro...
Case Reports
Le infezioni in medicina. 2003 Mar;11(1):42-5. DOI: 2003
Enanthema as the first clinical manifestation of abacavir hypersensitivity reaction: a case report [0.03%]
Massimilliano Lanzafame,Marco Trevenzoli,Emanuela Lattuada et al.
Massimilliano Lanzafame et al.
Abacavir is a nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor used in combination with other antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV 1-infection. Approximately 3% of patients who receive abacavir develop an idiosyncratic hypersens...
Case Reports
Le infezioni in medicina. 2003 Mar;11(1):40-1. DOI: 2003
[Subphrenic abscess during the course of acute brucellosis: diagnosis and treatment with percutaneous sonographically-guided drainage] [0.03%]
Antonio Giorgio,Giorgio de Stefano,Luciano Tarantino et al.
Antonio Giorgio et al.
Abscess formation during the course of acute brucellosis is a rare event. A case of subphrenic abscess, the first to our knowledge, is described. A 49 years-old male patient with fever and a mild increase in ALT and gamma-GT was referred to...
Case Reports
Le infezioni in medicina. 2003 Mar;11(1):35-9. DOI: 2003
Maria Di Gangi,Amelia Romano,Maria Gabriella Fugardi et al.
Maria Di Gangi et al.
HHV8 has been consistently linked to both classical and endemic Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma and multicentric Castleman's disease. HHV8 has also been associated to other oncologic diseases although such reports have not ...
[Treatment of bacterial conjuntivitis with topical ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin: a comparative study] [0.03%]
Giuseppe Chisari,Marisa Sanfilippo,Michele Reibaldi
Giuseppe Chisari
The authors studied the epidemiology of external ocular infections and the therapeutic efficacy of topical ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin in the treatment of conjunctivitis and blepharitis. Signs and symptoms in two study-group (ciprofloxaci...
Clinical Trial
Le infezioni in medicina. 2003 Mar;11(1):25-30. DOI: 2003