| intestinal protozoa in hiv-infected patients in apulia, south italy. | protozoa are important enteric pathogens in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. in this study the prevalence of intestinal protozoa in 154 hiv-infected patients, with or without diarrhoea, in our region (apulia, south italy) was evaluated between december 1993 and february 1998. in the majority of patients cd4+ t cell count was below 200/microl. the overall prevalence of intestinal protozoa was 43/154 (27.92%). twenty-eight (43.08%) out of 65 patients with diarrhoea and 1 ... | 1999 | 10694157 |
| high seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 (hhv-8) in hiv-1-infected pregnant women of southeastern italy: association with injection drug use and hepatitis c virus infection. | the seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 (hhv-8) in a group of hiv-1-infected pregnant women and in mother-child pairs from southeastern italy (apulia) was determined. blood was collected from 49 hiv-1-infected women during pregnancy or at delivery as well as from their children. samples were analysed for the presence of antibodies to the latency-associated nuclear antigen and a structural antigen encoded by open reading frame 65. the presence of antibodies to hepatitis c virus (hcv) was also d ... | 2004 | 14981769 |
| reconstruction of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) sub-epidemics in italian regions. | the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infections is likely to consist of sub-epidemics in local areas and/or risk groups. small-area risk group specific analyses may thus be a suitable means of better understanding and controlling the epidemic course. | 1999 | 10195676 |
| seroprevalence of kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus 8 in several regions of italy. | to study the seroprevalence of kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus type 8 (kshv/hhv-8) in 779 italian blood donors. | 1998 | 10195244 |
| htlv-i and htlv-ii infections in subjects at risk for hiv-i infection from southeastern italy (apulia region). | to assess the prevalence of htlv-i and htlv-ii infections in different groups at risk for hiv-i infection, a study on 867 subjects was carried out by means of serological and pcr analyses. serum specimens were collected from 268 intravenous drug users (ivdu), 66 homosexual men, 248 subjects with sexually transmitted diseases (std), 105 thalassemics and 180 hemophiliacs. sera from 3 ivdu and a sample from an std patient were confirmed as htlv-ii seropositive; a thalassemic patient was seropositiv ... | 1996 | 8631585 |
| screening for anti-human t-lymphotropic virus antibody in blood donors and polytransfused patients in apulia (italy). | a stringent procedure for the diagnosis of human t-lymphotropic virus (htlv) infection was applied to 1,732 volunteer blood donors, 401 patients with various hematological disorders and 78 individuals at high risk for hiv infection. it consisted of a viral lysate-based screening assay (abbott laboratories, north chicago, ill., usa), and two confirmatory assays (western blot and radioimmunoprecipitation assay). a confirmed positive sample had to react with at least two different htlv gene product ... | 1990 | 1979895 |
| prevalence of hepatitis b, c, hiv and syphilis markers among refugees in bari, italy. | the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), hepatitis b virus (hbv) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) serological markers and the prevalence of vdrl positive subjects in a population of refugees of various nationalities, living in the asylum seeker centre in bari palese, southern italy. | 2010 | 20646306 |