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N Piersantelli

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[Rhodococcus equi infections in AIDS: personal cases].

We report on the occurrence of an uncommon pathogen, Rhodococcus equi (R.e.) in HIV infection. In the period february 1990-July 1991 we performed the diagnosis of R.e. infection (lung, lung-central nervous system) in two infected patients, aged 27 and 31 years, both males, drug addicts, classified as CDC IV. In the first of them an cavitating right bronchopneumonia (bpm) was diagnosed as of tuberculous origin, on the ground of the microscopic demonstration of an acid-fast, gram-positive strain in b.a.l.. A standard antituberculous regimen was uneffective and R.e. was eventually isolated in three blood culture taken shortly before the exitus and at post-mortem examination of the lungs. In the second patient a subclavian right bpm developed without microbiological evidence of any common pathogen. A third-generation cephalosporin course was only partially successful (clinical amelioration, incomplete clearing of radiological findings). After 3 months the patient relapsed and an aseptic meningitis developed. Cultures of blood and csf yielded a R.e. strain; post-mortem examination revealed a diffuse, cavitating bpm. Our personal experience underlines the difficulty in recognizing R.e. infections in compromised host, because of similarity to other entities (i.e. tuberculosis) and the absence of pathognomonic hints.

AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections↗
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[Esophageal ulcer caused by Geotrichum candidum in a case of AIDS].

Isolate esophageal ulcer caused by Geotrichum candidum in a case of AIDS. We report the case of a 29-year-old white man, AIDS affected, presented with odynophagia, dysphagia and chest pain. X-ray and endoscopic study revealed an isolated esophageal ulcer whose culture demonstrated to be caused by Geotrichum candidum. This etiologic agent was not previously described in this kind of lesion.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
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[Problems of the prenatal prophylaxis of the viral infections (author's transl)].

The present review will supply an simple notice over the characters of every one viral infection interesting the materne-faetal conditions, and also propose the most convenient intervention for each observed type. A not small lot of these problems are not resolved in the field of the antiviral immunity regarding the mother and newborn.

Cytomegalovirus Infections↗
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[Cerebrospinal fluid immunoglobulins in various types of meningitis].

The Authors using new immunochemical method studied the increases of CSF fluid immunoglobulin fractions during bacterial, viral and tuberculous meningitis. IgG, IgM and IgA levels are increases in all forms of acute meningitis, therefore the rise result most marked in bacterial. It presents further increase in the later stages of viral meningitis. The Authors valued, by mathematical proceeding, IgG, IgA and IgM variations to offer further physiopathologic, diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic aknowledgements.

Adolescent↗