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Outbreak of infusion-related septicemia by Ralstonia pickettii in the Oncology DepartmentMassimo Marroni
Tumori 89:575-6. 2003..Hospital acquired blood stream infection by Ralstonia pickettii in 9 cancer patients related to the heparin solution contamination used to flush the central venous catheter...
Lingual tuberculosis: a rare disease in Western countriesMaria Bruna Pasticci
Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
New Microbiol 35:233-7. 2012..Clinicians must take into greater consideration tuberculosis as a possible diagnosis when diagnosing chronic and/or recurrent lingual lesions even in the absence of pulmonary lesions...
Trends and challenges in tuberculosis in a medium-sized southern European settingM B Pasticci
Infectious Disease Clinic Section, Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, Perugia University, Perugia, Italy
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 16:645-8. 2012..Only one case occurred in a native-born Italian, and five of seven cases had newly diagnosed TB. In low TB incidence settings such as Perugia, Italy, TB prevention and control programmes for the foreign-born need to be reinforced...
Community-acquired mastitis due to Mycobacterium abscessus: a case reportMaria Bruna Pasticci
Infectious Disease Section, Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
J Med Case Reports 3:130. 2009..Disseminated infections and pulmonary infections are usually reported in immunocompromised hosts...
Diagnosing tuberculosis in pregnancy: a case reportMaria Bruna Pasticci
Infectious Disease Section, Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
New Microbiol 34:327-30. 2011..tuberculosis diffusion. A high index of suspicion by health professionals is required to detect and manage tuberculosis in pregnancy and newborns in both the developed and developing word...
Bactericidal activity of oxacillin and glycopeptides against Staphylococcus aureus in patients with endocarditis: looking for a relationship between tolerance and outcomeMaria Bruna Pasticci
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 10:26. 2011....
A diagnosis of pneumococcal peritonitis secondary to pyo-salpinx in a young healthy female by culturing peritoneal pusMaria Bruna Pasticci
Department of Biochemical Science and Experimental Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
New Microbiol 31:295-8. 2008..Penicillin susceptible S. pneumoniae was isolated from the pus collected at surgery. Thus, culturing of intra-operative specimens should never be neglected to establish the correct microbiologic diagnosis...
Clinical efficacy and tolerability of caspofungin in a renal transplant patient with Aspergillus flavus lung infection: case reportM B Pasticci
Clinica di Malattie Infettive, Dipartimento Medicina Sperimentale e Scienze Biochimiche, Universita di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
J Chemother 18:549-53. 2006..Caspofungin seems to be a potentially useful antifungal agent in renal transplant patients with invasive aspergillosis. Further evaluation of the efficacy of caspofungin is needed...
Treatment of post-traumatic hand Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis with oral linezolidM B Pasticci
Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Scienze Biochimiche, Sezione Clinica di Malattie Infettive, Universita di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
J Chemother 18:425-9. 2006..Prolonged administration requires careful surveillance for side effects, until these complications are better understood...
Pulsed field gel electrophoresis and random amplified polymorphic DNA molecular characterization of Ralstonia pickettii isolates from patients with nosocomial central venous catheter related bacteremiaMaria Bruna Pasticci
Clinica di Malattie Infettive, Dipartimento Medicina Sperimentale e Scienze Biochimiche, University of Perugia, Italy
New Microbiol 28:145-9. 2005..PFGE and RAPD appear to be discriminatory techniques to study the clonal relationship among the isolates and can represent a good tool to perform the epidemiological investigation of an outbreak...
[Clinico-microbiological comments on various cases of candidemia]Maria Bruna Pasticci
Sezione di Clinica di Malattie Infettive, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Scienze Biochimiche, Policlinico Monteluce, Universita, Perugia
Recenti Prog Med 93:355-60. 2002..In 5 cases fluconazole was discontinued for clinical failure. Clinical outcome in patients with Candida infection depends on other factors beside in vitro drug susceptibility tests...
Comparison of the BD Phoenix system with the cefoxitin disk diffusion test for detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococciAntonella Mencacci
Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
J Clin Microbiol 47:2288-91. 2009..The sensitivity for Phoenix was 100%. The specificities were 99.86% for S. aureus and 88.4% for CoNS...
Fusobacterium nucleatum endocarditis mimicking polymyalgia rheumaticaGiuseppe Vittorio L De Socio
Department of Infectious Diseases Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, University of Perugia, Italy
South Med J 102:1082-4. 2009..An atypical evolution of a common rheumatic disorder such as polymyalgia rheumatica should alert physicians to the possibility of bacterial endocarditis...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium osteoarthritis following Staphylococcus aureus hip infectionMaria Bruna Pasticci
Dept of Experimental Medicine and Biochemistry, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Policlinico Monteluce, 06126 Perugia, Italy
Orthopedics 28:1457-8. 2005
Drawbacks of antibiotic susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniaeMaria Bruna Pasticci
Infez Med 11:213-5. 2003..84 mg/l. Lack of susceptibility to cotrimoxazole was 38.4%. All isolates were susceptible to ceftriaxone, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and quinupristin-dalfopristin...
Absidia corymbifera necrotizing cellulitis in an immunocompromised patient while on voriconazole treatmentMaria Bruna Pasticci
Ann Hematol 87:687-9. 2008
