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| José Ramón BlancoSummaryAffiliation: Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas Country: Spain Publications
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Definition of advanced age in HIV infection: looking for an age cut-offJosé R Blanco
Hospital San Pedro CIBIR, Logrono, Spain
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 28:1000-6. 2012..In HIV infection, patients aged ≥50 years have a poorer immunological response to HAART and a poorer survival. This age could be used to define medically advanced age in HIV-infected people...
HIV infection and agingJosé R Blanco
San Pedro CIBIR Hospital, Logrono, Spain
AIDS Rev 12:218-30. 2010..Because no guidelines recommend a specific HAART regimen for older people, specific clinical trials and pharmacological studies should be designed to optimize HAART in these patients...- [Microbiological diagnosis of emerging bacterial pathogens: Anaplasma, Bartonella, Rickettsia, and Tropheryma whipplei]José Ramón Blanco
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Centro de Rickettsiosis y Enfermedades Transmitidas por Artrópodos Vectores, Hospital San Pedro CIBIR, Logrono, Spain
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 26:573-80. 2008..2007) (www.seimc.org/documentos/protocolos/microbiologia/)... - Rickettsiosis in EuropeJ R Blanco
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Complejo San Millán San Pedro de La Rioja, Hospital de La Rioja, Avd Viana 1, 26001, Logroño La Rioja, Spain
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1078:26-33. 2006..Other rickettsioses exist that have not yet been implicated in human pathology. We should consider that climate changes and other factors could contribute to the emergence and reemergence of other new diseases... - Prevalence of rickettsia felis-like and Bartonella Spp. in Ctenocephalides felis and Ctenocephalides canis from La Rioja (Northern Spain)José Ramón Blanco
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospitales San Millán San Pedro de La Rioja, Avda Viana, N 1, 26001 Logroño La Rioja, Spain
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1078:270-4. 2006..4%), Bartonella clarridgeiae (6.8%), and Bartonella henselae (3.4%) were detected in Ctenocephalides spp. Other Bartonella sp. different from B. clarridgeiae and B. henselae could also be present in fleas from La Rioja... - Dermacentor-borne necrosis erythema and lymphadenopathy: clinical and epidemiological features of a new tick-borne diseaseJ A Oteo
Servicio de Medicina Interna y Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital de La Rioja, Logrono, Spain
Clin Microbiol Infect 10:327-31. 2004..The probable aetiological agent is Rickettsia slovaca. Similar cases have been reported in other European countries... - [Treatment of human infections caused by Bartonella spp.]L Perez-Martinez
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital San Pedro Centro de Investigación Biomédica de La Rioja, Logrono, Spain
Rev Esp Quimioter 23:109-14. 2010..There is not a universal therapy for this infection, therefore treatment should be chosen individually. The aim of this review is to update the therapeutics aspects of this kind of infections... - Prevalence of spotted fever group Rickettsia species detected in ticks in La Rioja, SpainJ A Oteo
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospitales San Millán San Pedro de La Rioja, Avda de Viana n 1, 26001 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1078:320-3. 2006..aeschlimannii, R. massiliae, BAR29, R. slovaca and Rickettsia sp. strains RpA4, DnS14, DnS28 and JL-02. Their presence has to be taken into account since most of them have been recognized as human pathogens... - [The influence of alternative medicine in highly active antiretroviral treatment]M Vazquez Hernandez
Servicio de Farmacia Hospitalaria, Hospital San Pedro, Logrono, La Rioja, Espana
Farm Hosp 33:31-6. 2009..Secondly, with the help of existing bibliographic information, we want to study the existence of possible interactions... - Rickettsia slovaca infection: DEBONEL/TIBOLAV Ibarra
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospitales San Millán San Pedro de La Rioja, Avda Viana No 1 26001 Logroño La Rioja, Spain
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1078:206-14. 2006..strains RpA4, DnS14, and DnS28. All ticks removed from patients were PCR-positive. Sequencing showed 8 of them identified as R. slovaca and 2 as Rickettsia sp. strains RpA4, DnS14, and DnS28... - Low risk of developing human Rickettsia aeschlimannii infection in the north of SpainJ A Oteo
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, , Avda. de Viana no. 1, , Spain
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1063:349-51. 2005 - DEBONEL/TIBOLA: is Rickettsia slovaca the only etiological agent?V Ibarra
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospitales San Millán San Pedro de La Rioja, Avda Viana, No 1, 26001, Logroño La Rioja, Spain
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1063:346-8. 2005 - [Endocarditis due to Bartonella spp. Three new clinical cases and Spanish literature review]Jose Antonio Oteo
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Complejo Hospitalario San Millán San Pedro de La Rioja, Hospital de La Rioja, Logrono, Espana
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 24:297-301. 2006..Infections by Bartonella spp. include a wide spectrum of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, such as culture-negative endocarditis... 
Minimal effects of Darunavir on adipocyte differentiation and metabolism in 3T3-L1 cellsPatricia Pérez-Matute
HIV and Associated Metabolic Alterations Unit, Infectious Diseases Area, Center for Biomedical Research of La Rioja CIBIR, Piqueras, No 98, 26006, Logrono, Spain
J Infect Chemother 18:485-93. 2012..The lack of effects of RTV co-treatment on glucose and lipid metabolism emphasizes the safety of this treatment...- Effect of antibiotic treatment in patients with DEBONEL/TIBOLAV Ibarra
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, , Avda. Viana, N 1, , Spain
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1063:257-8. 2005..The aim of our study was to know the effect of starting early treatment in the course of the DEBONEL/TIBOLA... - Evaluation of IgG antibody response against Rickettsia conorii and Rickettsia slovaca in patients with DEBONEL/TIBOLAS Santibanez
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospitales San Millán San Pedro de La Rioja, Avda de Viana number 1, 26001 Logroño La Rioja, Spain
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1078:570-2. 2006..slovaca antigen allowed the diagnoses in 18 of the 31 patients (58%), and 17 patients (55%) were diagnosed with this disease using R. conorii antigen. Therefore, using R. slovaca as antigen did not improve the sensitivity of the assay... - [Diseases produced by Bartonella]José Ramón Blanco
Area de Gestión en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Complejo San Millán San Pedro de La Rioja, Hospital de La Rioja, Avda del Viana 1, 26001 Logroño, Spain
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 23:313-9; quiz 320. 2005..is responsible of potentially serious clinical pictures (endocarditis, chronic bacteremia, bacillary angiomatosis, Carrion's disease, etc.), so clinical suspicion, a quick diagnosis and an early treatment provide a better resolution... - Detection of a non-pathogenic variant of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus from La Rioja, SpainA Portillo
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, , No. 1. 26001, , Spain
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1063:333-6. 2005..This finding could justify the low incidence of human anaplasmosis in our area, despite the high prevalence of A. phagocytophilum in ticks... - Presence of granulocytic ehrlichia in ticks and serological evidence of human infection in La Rioja, SpainJ A Oteo
Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital de La Rioja, , Spain
Epidemiol Infect 127:353-8. 2001..HGE should be considered in the differential diagnosis of flu-like syndromes in the study area in the north of Spain... - Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in EuropeJ R Blanco
Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital de La Rioja, , Spain
Clin Microbiol Infect 8:763-72. 2002..European HGE cases have a less severe course, and the presence of morulae is uncommon. In Europe, verification of HGE has been based on PCR and immunofluorescence antibody tests, because no isolation from humans has been reported... - Guidelines for the diagnosis of tick-borne bacterial diseases in EuropeP Brouqui
Unite des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, Faculte de Medecine, Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France
Clin Microbiol Infect 10:1108-32. 2004..These guidelines aim to help clinicians and microbiologists in diagnosing infection transmitted by tick bites and to provide the scientific and medical community with a better understanding of these infectious diseases...