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1. Invasive Aspergillosis in Italian AIDS Patients

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Libanore, M., Prini, E., Mazzetti, M., Barchi, E., Raise, E., Gritti, F. M., Bonazzi, L., and Ghinelli, F.

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AIDS (Disease) -- Complications and side effects, Aspergillosis -- Care and treatment, Health
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Byline: M. Libanore (1), E. Prini (1), M. Mazzetti (2), E. Barchi (3), E. Raise (4), F. M. Gritti (2), L. Bonazzi (3), F. Ghinelli (1) Abstract: Background: We studied the prevalence, epidemiological features, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and outcome of invasive aspergillosis in AIDS patients in Italy. Patients and Methods: All patients affected by both aspergillosis and AIDS hospitalized between January 1986 and April 1997 (before highly-active antiretroviral therapy, HAART) in four Italian Department of Infectious Disease. Patients were included in the study only if culture, cytology or histology showed firm evidence of Aspergillus infection. Invasive aspergillosis was defined as the presence of characteristic, closely septate hyphae with repeated acute angle branching in either biopsy materials or percutaneous aspirates from tissues other than the lung. Hyphae were identified using hematoxylin-eosin and methenamine silver stain. Results: During the study, 54 out of 2,614 patients admitted with AIDS showed aspergillosis (2.1%). The disease usually ocurred in patients with &lt 50 CD4 cells/mm.sup.3. Aspergillosis was associated with neutropenia and steroid treatment. Nonspecific symptoms were frequently encountered. Fever and cough were both present in &gt 70% of the cases of pulmonary aspergillosis. Biopsy specimens were analyzed for definitive diagnosis. Invasive aspergillosis is usually treated with amphotericin B, but in 90% of the cases this did not prevent death. Conclusion: In AIDS patients with neutropenia and long-term steroid therapy, it is important to consider invasive aspergillosis in the differential diagnosis of opportunistic infections. Author Affiliation: (1) Dept. of Infectious Diseases, St. Anna Hospital and University of Ferrara, C.so Giovecca 203, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy. m.libanore@tin.it, IT (2) Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy, IT (3) Dept. of Infectious Diseases, S. Maria Nuova Hospital, Reggio Emilia, Italy, IT (4) Dept. of Infectious Diseases, S. Giovanni and Paolo Hospital, Venezia, Italy, IT Article note: Received: February 15, 2001 * Revision accepted: July 5, 2002 M. Libanore (corresponding author)

Published
2002

2. Clinical, epidemiological and virological features of acute hepatitis B in Italy

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Zuccaro O, Romanò L, Mele A, Mariano A, Clementi M, Tosti ME, Taliani G, Galli C, Zanetti AR, Spada E, Raise E, Eseme FE, Maio G, Rummo G, Maio P, Di Giuli C, Bellissima P, Bonfante S, Chiriacò P, Cacopardo B, Blanc P, Palattella S, Santantonio T, Guastadisegni A, Amoroso P, Fabris P, Giordani MT, Vullo V, Giuberti T, Schivazzappa S, Trezzi M, Biagetti C, Pocaterra D, Sagnelli E, Messina V, Antonucci G, Spallanzani L, Vairo F, Marinelli M, Paladini S, Tagliacarne C., VERUCCHI, GABRIELLA, Zuccaro O, Romanò L, Mele A, Mariano A, Clementi M, Tosti ME, Taliani G, Galli C, Zanetti AR, Spada E, Raise E, Eseme FE, Maio G, Rummo G, Maio P, Di Giuli C, Bellissima P, Bonfante S, Chiriacò P, Cacopardo B, Blanc P, Palattella S, Santantonio T, Guastadisegni A, Amoroso P, Fabris P, Giordani MT, Vullo V, Giuberti T, Schivazzappa S, Trezzi M, Verucchi G, Biagetti C, Pocaterra D, Sagnelli E, Messina V, Antonucci G, Spallanzani L, Vairo F, Marinelli M, Paladini S, Tagliacarne C, Zuccaro, O., Romano, L., Mele, A., Mariano, A., Clementi, M., Tosti, M. E., Taliani, G., Galli, C., Zanetti, A. R., and Spada, E.

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Adult, Male, Microbiology (medical), Hepatitis B virus, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Genotype, Epidemiology, Genotypes, Gene mutation, medicine.disease_cause, Cohort Studies, Young Adult, Basal (phylogenetics), 80 and over, medicine, Humans, Hepatitis B Vaccines, Prospective Studies, Acute infection, Hepatitis B, Mutations, Risk factors, Aged, Acute Disease, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Hepatitis B Core Antigens, Italy, Middle Aged, Infectious Diseases, business.industry, Promoter, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Virology, Mutation, Immunology, Acute hepatitis B, business
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Purpose: To evaluate the association of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes, basal core promoter (BCP)/precore (PC) and S gene mutations with the clinical-epidemiological characteristics of acute hepatitis B (AHB) in Italy. Methods: During July 2005–January 2007, 103 symptomatic AHB patients were enrolled and prospectively followed up at 15 national hospitals. HBV genotypes, BCP/PC and S gene variants were determined by nested-PCR and direct sequence analysis. Results: Genotype D, A and F were detected in 49, 45 and 6% of patients, respectively. BCP, PC, and BCP plus PC variants were found in 3.1, 11.3 and 7.2% of patients, respectively. At enrollment, 68.3% of patients were hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive and 31.7% HBeAg-negative. BCP/PC mutations were more common in HBeAg-negative than in HBeAg-positive patients (p&nbsp

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2015
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3. Invasive Aspergillosis in Italian AIDS patients

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E. Prini, M. Mazzetti, E. Barchi, F. Ghinelli, Fabrice Gritti, M. Libanore, Raise E, and L Bonazzi

Subjects
Microbiology (medical), Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Opportunistic infection, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections, Neutropenia, Aspergillosis, Amphotericin B, Internal medicine, Biopsy, medicine, Prevalence, Humans, Mycosis, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Aged, 80 and over, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Italy, Female, Differential diagnosis, business, medicine.drug
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We studied the prevalence, epidemiological features, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and outcome of invasive aspergillosis in AIDS patients in Italy.All patients affected by both aspergillosis and AIDS hospitalized between January 1986 and April 1997 (before highly-active antiretroviral therapy, HAART) in four Italian Department of Infectious Disease. Patients were included in the study only if culture, cytology or histology showed firm evidence of Aspergillus infection. Invasive aspergillosis was defined as the presence of characteristic, closely septate hyphae with repeated acute angle branching in either biopsy materials or percutaneous aspirates from tissues other than the lung. Hyphae were identified using hematoxylin-eosin and methenamine silver stain.During the study, 54 out of 2,614 patients admitted with AIDS showed aspergillosis (2.1%). The disease usually occurred in patients with50 CD4 cells/mm(3). Aspergillosis was associated with neutropenia and steroid treatment. Nonspecific symptoms were frequently encountered. Fever and cough were both present in70% of the cases of pulmonary aspergillosis. Biopsy specimens were analyzed for definitive diagnosis. Invasive aspergillosis is usually treated with amphotericin B, but in 90% of the cases this did not prevent death.In AIDS patients with neutropenia and long-term steroid therapy, it is important to consider invasive aspergillosis in the differential diagnosis of opportunistic infections.

Published
2002

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