Publications by authors named "Crescenzo Maria Izzo"
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- A 23-year-old immunocompetent patient presented with an occasional cough and unexplained lung abnormalities for 2 months, previously treated unsuccessfully with antibiotics.
- Routine tests and sputum cultures initially revealed no common pathogens, leading to a bronchoscopy which ultimately detected Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- The patient was diagnosed with tubercular lobitis and started on antituberculosis therapy, highlighting the effectiveness of PCR over traditional culture methods for faster diagnosis in such cases.
In this study we examined the characteristics of 60 subjects (49 M and 11 F, average age 32.3) out of 195 post-exposure pharmacological prophylaxis (PEP) to HIV, taken in our hospital from 2001 to 2008. The above-mentioned subjects are sexually exposed (or presumably exposed) to HIV.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 47-year-old woman was pricked accidentally with a needle previously used for a neurosyphilitic man. At day 0 she had no positive laboratory results for the infection, while the source, at day 1, had TPHA positive, but no post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) against syphilis was prescribed. The subject missed the day 30 follow-up, and underwent our visit at day 90, when she showed no clinical signs, but she seroconverted (VDRL = positive 1/2; TPHA = positive 1/320; FTA-Abs IgG and IgM = present).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe studied the predictive value of self-reported adherence and plasma drug concentrations on virological rebound to HAART. Among 238 participants in the AdICoNA study who had viral load < or = 500 copies/ml, 42 (17.6%) experienced virological rebound by 96 weeks.
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