CHARACTERISTICS OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS COINFECTION AMONG HIV-INFECTED PREGNANT WOMEN.

Unlabelled: The similar routes of transmission for HIV and HBV place patients with either infection at greater risk for HIV/HBV co-infection.

Aim: To determine the particularities of hepatitis B virus (HBV) coinfection in pregnant women infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and its influence on pregnancy.

Methods: Retrospective study of 74 HIV-infected women monitored during pregnancy in the Iasi Regional HIV/AIDS Center (Romania) from 2010 to 2013.

Tuberculous Meningitis in Children and Adults: A 10-Year Retrospective Comparative Analysis.

Background: Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most lethal form of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, which has a high rate of neurological complications and sequelae.

Objectives: Our study offers a real-world infectious disease clinic perspective, being thus representative for the clinical environment of developing countries.

Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of the 127 adult and 77 pediatric cases diagnosed with TBM in the Infectious Disease Hospital of the School of Medicine of Iasi, Romania between 2004-2013.

Characteristics of co infection with hepatitis B virus among Romanian patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus.

Aim: To determine the epidemiological and viroimmunological features and outcome of HIV/HBV-co infected patients cared in the lasi HIV/AIDS Regional Center.

Material And Methods: This retrospective study included 252 patients diagnosed with HIV infection and associated hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection assessed at the Hospital of Infectious Diseases in the interval 2000-2013 and treated with antiretroviral drugs active against both HIV and HBV.

Results: The prevalence of HIV/HBV co infection was 19.

Bacterial meningitis during sepsis in diabetic patient.

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to evaluate the etiology, clinical features and outcome in diabetic patients with bacterial meningitis, as a nervous system determination during invasive infections.

Material And Methods: In a retrospective study, conducted over a period of three years, we have analyzed clinical and etiological aspects of 445 patients over 18 years old, diagnosed with sepsis of known (positive cultures from normally sterile sites) or suspected etiology (positive cultures from pus), 95 of them being included in the diabetic group.

Results: Bacterial meningitis was diagnosed in 16 of 95 diabetic patients (16.

Side effects of antiviral therapy in hepatitis C virus infection-sarcoidosis - case report.

Standard therapy in chronic hepatitis C virus infection is still a combination of peginterferon alfa2a/2b and ribavirin for 48 weeks. As of side effects, there are organic side effects, such as hematologic disorders, and functional side effects, reflected in the quality of life of hepatitis C patients. Up to 30% of the patients develop specific side effects such as headache, fever, fatigue.

Clinical features and course of bacterial meningitis in children.

Aim: To analyze the clinical features and course of and to define the risk factors for bacterial meningitis in children.

Material And Methods: Retrospective study of 100 cases of bacterial meningitis in patients aged 0-18 years admitted to the Iasi Infectious Diseases Hospital between 2005 and 2010.

Results: We found a clear prevalence in male children (58%) from rural area (67%), with the highest incidence in the age group 2-5 years.

[Epidemiology and clinical features in diabetic patients with invasive infections treated at the Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases of Iaşi, Romania, between 2008-2010].

Unlabelled: Infections in the diabetic population can be severe and life threatning at least for two reasons: clinical signs are often torpid, masqued by chronical complications of diabetes leading to late recognition and medical adresability and also because of the inability to control established infection due to complex cell-mediated and humoral immunity deffects. The aim of the study was to evaluate the etiology, clinical features and outcome in diabetic patients with invazive disease.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted between January 2008 and December 2010 at The Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases Iaşi among 75 diabetic patients with sepsis of microbiologically confirmed etiology (positive cultures from normally sterile sites) and sepsis with clinically suspected etiology (positive cultures from pus).