How medical students experience empathy training? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results from the "Empathize with me, doctor!" project.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The aim of this study was to investigate how a detailed experiential empathy training program was experienced by medical undergraduates.

Phylogenetic reconstruction of a known HIV-1 CRF04_cpx transmission network using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods.

The CRF04_cpx strains of HIV-1 accounts for approximately 2-10% of the infected population in Greece, across different transmission risk groups. CRF04_cpx was the lineage documented in an HIV-1 transmission network in Thessalonica, northern Greece. Most of the transmissions occurred through unprotected heterosexual contacts between 1989 and 1993.

Genetic variation of the protease and reverse transcriptase genes in HIV-1 CRF04_cpx strains.

To gain information about the genetic variation of the protease and reverse transcriptase gene-coding regions in HIV-1 strains belonging to CRF04_cpx, genotyping and drug susceptibility testing were performed on serum samples derived from seven patients carrying sequences belonging to this circulating recombinant form. Substitutions classically associated with resistance to antiretroviral drugs were observed in six of seven samples, including G48V, V82A, L90M, M46I in the protease protein, and K70R, D69D/N, M184V, T215F, K103N in the reverse transcriptase protein. Genotypic resistance patterns of CRF04_cpx samples were found to be similar to those identified in subtype B viruses, suggesting that the drug-selective pressure has similar effects on both subtype B and CRF04_cpx.

First report of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii serotype B from Greece.

A plethora of cases of Cryptococcus neoformans infections have been recorded worldwide in immunocompromised individuals. The number of such cases showed a steady rise before 1981 and increased dramatically thereafter due to the AIDS epidemic. A similar pattern has been seen in Greece but, so far, infections appear to have been caused by C.