Publications by authors named "Nicholas Brian Bana"

Background: (MG) is responsible for non-gonococcal urethritis. Our aim is to describe MG positivity rate and incidence in specific populations.

Methods: Retrospective, surveillance study included all samples collected from 2018 to 2022.

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Oral HPV infection is the main risk factor for the development of oropharyngeal carcinoma. Men who have sex with men (MSM), especially if living with HIV (PLWH), are at increased risk of infection and consequently of cancer development. Aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of nonavalent vaccine on oral HPV infection in a cohort of MSM and transgender women (TGW).

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Meningitis and ventriculitis, due to carbapenem-resistant , are frequently associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In the case of multi-drug-resistant pathogens, it is necessary to consider the limited susceptibility profile as well as the penetration of the antimicrobials into the brain. Limited data are available regarding the treatment of central nervous system infections caused by carbapenem-resistant .

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Objectives: The availability of doravirine (DOR) allowed clinicians to prescribe a dolutegravir (DTG)-based two-drug regimen (2DR) in individuals not eligible to receive lamivudine (3TC) or rilpivirine (RPV). The aims of this study were to describe the durability of DTG + DOR compared with DTG/3TC and DTG/RPV and the rate of virological failure and target not-detected maintenance over time.

Methods: This retrospective, monocentric analysis included all subjects who started a DTG-based 2DR from 2018 to 2022 as a simplification.

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(MG) is a common cause of non-gonococcal urethritis, but a role in acute or chronic prostatitis has not been described. We describe the case of a 42-year-old man with recurrent urinary tract infections since 2018 who developed chronic prostatitis despite several and prolonged antibiotic courses. Multiparametric prostatic magnetic resonance showed peripheral inflammatory alterations.

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  • HCV infection can cause immune issues beyond the liver, and co-infection with HIV amplifies this immune activation. This study focuses on how inflammatory markers and mixed cryoglobulinemia change in HIV/HCV co-infected patients after successful DAA treatment.
  • The research tracked 129 patients who started DAA treatment between 2015 and 2020, measuring various inflammatory markers at multiple time points, and found notable improvements in certain markers like cryocrit and rheumatoid factor soon after treatment.
  • While there was a significant decrease in mixed cryoglobulinemia positivity and some inflammatory markers improved, autoantibody reactivity remained mostly unchanged, indicating DAA therapy benefits some inflammation but not autoantibody
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Objectives: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common STI and is associated with a wide range of diseases from anogenital warts to malignancies. Anal HPV infection is considerably more common in men who have sex with men (MSM) living with HIV. Aims of the present study are to (i) describe the prevalence of anal HPV infection in MSM who started pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and (ii) analyse factors associated with anal infection from genotypes that would be covered by nonavalent vaccination.

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