| incidence and prevalence trends of hiv infection in intravenous drug users attending treatment centers in milan and northern italy, 1986-1990. | to assess the incidence and time trends of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection among intravenous drug users (ivdus) and to evaluate the opportunities for prevention, we studied ivdus recruited from 23 drug dependence treatment centers in milan and northern italy. participants were screened for hiv antibodies, and seronegative subjects were enrolled. a preventive intervention, based on counseling and hiv antibody testing, was done, and participants were invited to the centers for follow- ... | 1992 | 1548572 |
| incidence and risk factors of hiv infection: a prospective study of seronegative drug users from milan and northern italy, 1987-1989. | to assess the incidence of and risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection among hiv-negative intravenous drug abusers, we studied a cohort of intravenous drug abusers recruited from drug treatment centers in milan and northern italy. we enrolled 933 subjects between january 1, 1987 and april 15, 1989 and we followed 460 subjects with one or more visits for a mean follow-up duration of 10.4 months. the incidence rate of hiv infection was 7.4 per 100 person-years, equivalent to ... | 1990 | 2090283 |
| human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) seropositivity in intravenous (i.v.) drug abusers in three cities of italy: possible natural history of hiv infection in i.v. drug addicts in italy. | the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) antibodies and the symptoms induced [persistent generalized lymphadenopathy (pgl), aids-related complex (arc), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids)] was evaluated in several groups of intravenous (iv) drug abusers in three large italian cities (milan, bologna, and rome). the earliest evidence of seropositivity in sera collected from patients with acute viral hepatitis dates back to 1979 in milan and to 1981 in bologna with peaks in 1983 i ... | 1987 | 3430144 |
| hpv, hiv infection, and risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in former intravenous drug abusers. | the relation between human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), human papilloma virus (hpv) infection, sexual habits, reproductive history, and risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (cin) has been analyzed in a cross-sectional study conducted since 1986 among female former intravenous drug abusers attending for the first time to the colposcopic unit of the ospedale luigi sacco of milan and women consecutively admitted to the community for past drug abusers, s. patrignano, rimini. a total of 434 su ... | 1993 | 8390961 |
| number of sexual partners, condom use and risk of human immunodeficiency virus infection. | to analyse the relation between number of sexual partners, selected sexual habits and the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. | 1995 | 8824863 |
| epidemiological and clinical patterns of intrathoracic lymph node tuberculosis in 60 human immunodeficiency virus-negative adult patients. | we retrospectively evaluated a group of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-negative adult patients with hilar and/or mediastinal tubercular adenopathy to assess their epidemiological, clinical and radiological features. out of 3,003 intrathoracic tuberculosis (tb) cases (of which 745 were immigrants from various developing countries) observed in our institute from 1986-1996, 8 italians and 52 immigrants were selected. case history analysis, and standard chest radiography were performed in all ca ... | 1998 | 9785811 |
| effectiveness of infection control measures in controlling a nosocomial outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among hiv patients in italy. | between october 1992 and february 1994, 33 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (mdr-tb) were diagnosed among patients infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and hospitalised in an hiv ward in milan, italy. this outbreak was part of a much larger outbreak, begun in another hospital and probably transferred through a patient. | 2000 | 10654646 |
| modifications of health resource-use in italy after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (haart) for human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. pharmaco-economic implications in a population-based setting. | to assess the impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy (haart) on health resource utilisation (hru) and to estimate associated direct costs in a population based setting. | 2003 | 12941493 |