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An overview of meta-analyses of diagnostic tests in infectious diseasesMario Cruciani
Center of Preventive Medicine and HIV Outpatient Clinic, Verona, Italy
Infect Dis Clin North Am 23:225-67, Table of Contents. 2009..The execution and reporting of systematic reviews of diagnostic tests need to be improved...- Abacavir use and cardiovascular disease events: a meta-analysis of published and unpublished dataMario Cruciani
Centre of Community Medicine and HIV Outpatient Clinic, Verona, Italy
AIDS 25:1993-2004. 2011..However, no excess risk of myocardial infarction (MI) with ABC therapy has been observed in individual randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and in the aggregated clinical trials database maintained by the manufacturer of ABC... - Serologic response to hepatitis B vaccine with high dose and increasing number of injections in HIV infected adult patientsMario Cruciani
Center of Preventive Medicine, HIV Outpatient Clinic, V Germania, 20 37135 Verona, Italy
Vaccine 27:17-22. 2009.... 
Management of Candida infections in the adult intensive care unitMario Cruciani
Center of Preventive Medicine and HIV Out Patient Clinic, V Germania, 20 37135 Verona, Italy
Expert Opin Pharmacother 9:175-91. 2008..g., micafungin, anidulafungin). However, there is a critical need for improvement in diagnosis of invasive Candida infection in order to provide clinicians the opportunity to intervene earlier in the diseases course...- Antifungal prophylaxis in liver transplant patients: a systematic review and meta-analysisMario Cruciani
Center of Preventive Medicine, HIV Outpatient Clinic, Verona, Italy
Liver Transpl 12:850-8. 2006..Concerns about the selection of triazole-resistant Candida strains, however, are realistic, and the potential disadvantages of prophylaxis should be weighed against the established benefits... - Penetration of didanosine in semen of HIV-1-infected menM Cruciani
Centre of Preventive Medicine and HIV Outpatient Clinic, Via Germania 20, 37135 Verona, Italy
J Antimicrob Chemother 57:1244-7. 2006..We have investigated didanosine penetration in seminal plasma of 16 HIV-infected patients... - Prophylaxis of Candida infections in adult trauma and surgical intensive care patients: a systematic review and meta-analysisMario Cruciani
HIV Outpatient Clinic, Centre of Preventive Medicine, Via Germania 20, 37135, Verona, Italy
Intensive Care Med 31:1479-87. 2005..To determine whether systemic antifungal prophylaxis decreases infectious morbidity and mortality in nonneutropenic, critically ill, trauma and surgical intensive care unit (ICU) adult patients... - Pharmacokinetic interaction between chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and protease inhibitors in HIV-1-infected patientsMario Cruciani
Centre of Preventive Medicine HIV Outpatient Clinic, Via Germania 20, 37135 Verona, Italy
J Antimicrob Chemother 55:546-9. 2005..We have investigated whether chemotherapy for HIV-related systemic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) affects the pharmacokinetics of protease inhibitors... - Systematic review of the accuracy of the ParaSight-F test in the diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum malariaMario Cruciani
Center of Preventive Medicine, HIV Outpatient Clinic, Verona, Italy
Med Sci Monit 10:MT81-8. 2004..To provide an evaluation of the quality of available reports and an overall summary of diagnostic accuracy of the Parasight-F test, we have performed a systematic review... - Meta-analysis of diagnostic procedures for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in HIV-1-infected patientsM Cruciani
Center of Preventive Medicine HIV Outpatient Clinic, Verona, Italy
Eur Respir J 20:982-9. 2002..4 and 53-83.5% with cytochemical staining. In conclusion, in a setting of low prevalence of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, sputum induction, particularly with immunostaining, appears to be adequate for clinical decision-making... - Reappraisal with meta-analysis of the addition of Gram-positive prophylaxis to fluoroquinolone in neutropenic patientsMario Cruciani
Center of Preventive Medicine HIV Outpatient Clinic, Verona, Italy
J Clin Oncol 21:4127-37. 2003..We evaluated by meta-analysis the efficacy of the addition of antimicrobial agents with enhanced Gram-positive activity to prophylaxis with quinolones. Materials and.. 
Meta-analysis of BACTEC MGIT 960 and BACTEC 460 TB, with or without solid media, for detection of mycobacteriaM Cruciani
HIV Outpatient Clinic, Center of Preventive Medicine, Verona, Italy
J Clin Microbiol 42:2321-5. 2004..5 and 99.6% and 85.8 and 99.9%, respectively. Combined with solid media, the sensitivity of the two systems increased to 87.7 and 89.7%, respectively...- The impact of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 on infectiousness of tuberculosis: a meta-analysisM Cruciani
Department of Infectious Diseases, HIV Screening Center, Verona, Italy
Clin Infect Dis 33:1922-30. 2001..78-1.56) were similar regardless of HIV-1 positivity of index cases. These data suggest that tuberculosis patients with HIV-1 infection are not intrinsically more infectious to their contacts than are HIV-1-negative tuberculosis patients... - Antibacterial prophylaxisM Cruciani
Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Verona, Ospedale Civile Maggiore, P Le Stefani, 1 37126 Verona, Italy
Int J Antimicrob Agents 16:123-5. 2000..However, many of these approaches have fallen out of favour, mostly because of concerns about the long lasting efficacy. This paper focuses on the available prophylactic strategies, with emphasis on the use of antibacterial agents... - Granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor as an adjuvant for hepatitis B vaccination: a meta-analysisMario Cruciani
Center of Preventive Medicine, HIV Outpatient Clinic, V Germania, 20 37135 Verona, Italy
Vaccine 25:709-18. 2007.... - Painful neuropathy vasculitis in 2 patients with long-standing human immunodeficiency virus-1 infectionSergio Ferrari
Sections of Clinical Neurology, Department of Neurological and Visual Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Scand J Infect Dis 36:392-3. 2004..These unusual cases outline the importance of nerve biopsies in order to reach a diagnosis... - Effect of Helicobacter pylori eradication on platelet count in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: a systematic review and meta-analysisMassimo Franchini
Immuno hematology and Transfusion Center, City Hospital, Verona, and Department of Histology, Microbiology, and Medical Biotechnology, University of Padua, Italy
J Antimicrob Chemother 60:237-46. 2007..In order to clarify this controversial issue, we performed a systematic review with meta-analysis of the available literature... - Treatment of chronic hepatitis C in haemophilic patients with interferon and ribavirin: a meta-analysisMassimo Franchini
Hemophilia Center, City Hospital, Verona, Italy
J Antimicrob Chemother 61:1191-200. 2008..In order to analyse the effect of the current combination anti-HCV treatment [i.e. ribavirin plus interferon (IFN)] in this subset of HCV-infected patients, we performed a systematic review with meta-analysis of the available literature... - Trichosporon asahii infection treated with caspofungin combined with liposomal amphotericin BMatteo Bassetti
J Antimicrob Chemother 54:575-7. 2004 - Trends in antifungal use and species distribution among Candida isolates in a large paediatric hospitalGraziana Manno
Int J Antimicrob Agents 24:627-8. 2004 - Both human immunodeficiency virus cellular DNA sequencing and plasma RNA sequencing are useful for detection of drug resistance mutations in blood samples from antiretroviral-drug-naive patientsSaverio G Parisi
Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnology, Padova University, Via Gabelli 63, 35100 Padova, Italy
J Clin Microbiol 45:1783-8. 2007..0% and 36.2% of the subjects, respectively. Our data support the potential utility of genotypic resistance testing of PBMC DNA in conjunction with the currently recommended plasma RNA analysis... - Are granulocyte colony-stimulating factors beneficial in treating diabetic foot infections?: A meta-analysisMario Cruciani
University of Washington, School of Medicine, Director, General Internal Medicine Clinic, VA Puget Sound Health Care System S 111 GIMC, 1660 South Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108 1597, USA
Diabetes Care 28:454-60. 2005..To assess the value of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) as adjunctive therapy for diabetic foot infections... - Schistosoma hematobium and S. mansoni among children, Southern SudanRoberto Deganello
World Health Organization Headquarters for Southern Sudan, Nairobi, Kenya
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1504-6. 2007..5%; no cases of S. hematobium infection were detected. In Nyal (Upper Nile region), prevalence of S. hematobium infection was 73% and S. mansoni infection, 70%... - P. carinii pneumonia in African children and the ineffectiveness of TMP-SMX prophylaxisMario Cruciani
Clin Infect Dis 36:937-9; author reply 939-40. 2003 - Linezolid in the treatment of Gram-positive prosthetic joint infectionsMatteo Bassetti
Infectious Diseases Department, University of Genoa School of Medicine, San Martino Hospital, Genoa, Italy
J Antimicrob Chemother 55:387-90. 2005..To investigate the clinical efficacy and safety of linezolid in the treatment of Gram-positive prosthetic hip and knee infections... - Community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia with meningitis and endophthalmitis in ItalyMario Giobbia
Int J Infect Dis 7:234-5. 2003 - Antimicrobial use and Pseudomonas aeruginosa susceptibility profile in a cystic fibrosis centreGraziana Manno
Infectious Diseases Research and Diagnosis Laboratory, Department of Paediatrics, University of Genoa and Clinical Pathology Laboratories, G Gaslini Research Institute, Children s Hospital, Genoa, Italy
Int J Antimicrob Agents 25:193-7. 2005..Trend testing showed a significant decline of susceptibility to aminoglycosides, imipenem and ciprofloxacin, while the susceptibility of P. aeruginosa to piperacillin and ceftazidime was stable...