About my research
Antimicrobial stewardship; Clostridioides difficile; Acinetobacter; bacterial toxins; human serum albumin and infections; ICU infections; MDR infections; infection in the critically ill; fosfomycin; antibiotic synergism; vancomycin-resistant enterococci; oritavancin.
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- Human intestinal spirochetosis presenting as colonic ulceration in an immunocompetent 65-year-old man
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- Low, Intermediate, and High Glutamine Levels Are Progressively Associated with Increased Lymphopenia, a Diminished Inflammatory Response, and Higher Mortality in Internal Medicine Patients with Sepsis
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- Clinical impact of Staphylococcus aureus toxins
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- 24 h continuous-infusion cefiderocol reaches PK/PD target
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- Intravenous fosfomycin for difficult infections
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- Rare Non-Fermenting Bacteria: Treatment Options
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- The importance of antibiofilm antibiotics in hardware-associated infections
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- Tongue tremor suggesting tick-borne encephalitis
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- Ultrasonography for CAP diagnosis
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- Practical Application of Antibiotic PK/PD Principles Without Immediate Access to TDM
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- Fluoroquinolones' Role in Biofilm-Associated Infections
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- Evaluating the BioFire® Joint Infection Panel for Rapid Pathogen Detection in Non-Synovial Samples
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- Antibiotic resistances of Clostridium perfingens isolated from bloodstream infections
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- Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Current and Future Treatments
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- Zebrafish: A powerful model for studying the immune system's response to human infectious diseases.
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- HIV drugs may help treat melanoma resistant to standard BRAF-targeted therapies.
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- BioFire® Joint Infection Panel for Samples Other Than Synovial Fluid
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- Using a Fosfomycin and Oritavancin Combination in Vascular Grafts to Prevent Infection
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- Septic patients with elevated serum IRAK-M and galectin-1 had low survival rates.
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- Risk factors for mortality in enterococcal BSI
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- Predicting sepsis at emergency department triage
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- Temocillin + fosfomycin vs KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
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- Human serum albumin binds SARS-CoV-2 spike protein competing with ACE2
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- Human Campylobacter infections in Italy
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- Synergistic Activity of Temocillin and Fosfomycin Combination against KPC-Producing <em>Klebsiella pneumoniae </em>Clinical Isolates
- Comprehensive review on Clostridioides difficile infection in humans
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- The antiretroviral cabotegravir inhibits melanoma cell growth and invasion
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- Antibiotics Usage in Special Clinical Situations
- β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitors and cefiderocol: what clinicians need to know
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- Reactivation of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) Detected on Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid (BALF) Samples in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Undergoing Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: Preliminary Results from Two Italian Centers
- Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma antimicrobial resistances
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- Enterococcal meningitis associated with Strongyloides infection
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- Dracunculiasis' distribution
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- Intravenous fosfomycin for Pseudomonas infections
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- New Antimicrobials for Gram-Positive Sustained Infections: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
- Enterobius vermicularis spleen abscess
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- Oritavancin + fosfomycin for VRE BSI
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- Ralstonia mannitololytica outbreak
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- Endemic Systemic Mycoses in Italy: A Systematic Review of Literature and a Practical Update
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- New polyimidazole ligands against MBL
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- Ceftriaxone for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia: a matter of dosages?
- Candida lipolytica Bloodstream Infection in an Adult Patient with COVID-19 and Alcohol Use Disorder: A Unique Case and a Systematic Review of the Literature
- Diverticular Disease and Rifaximin
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- Infective portal vein thrombosis (pylephlebitis). A clinical review
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- The in vitro inhibitory activity of polypyridine ligands towards subclass B1 metallo-β-lactamases
- Acinetobacter resistance to sulbactam/durlobactam
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- Prolonged higher dose methylprednisoloneversusconventional dexamethasone in COVID-19 pneumonia: a randomised controlled trial (MEDEAS)
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- Oritavancin + fosfomycin against VRE
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- Sulbactam/durlobactam activity against Acinetobacter in Italy
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- Moxifloxacin vs anaerobes
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- HSV reactivation in COVID-19
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- Steroids in COVID-19 outpatients
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- Cutaneous nocardiosis
- Bloodstream infections by anaerobes and antibiotic resistances
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- Editorial for the Special Issue: “Antibiotic Use in Clinical Infection: How to Reinvent Old Molecules and How to Squeeze out New Ones”
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- Adiponectin and leptin in COVID-19
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- Low albumin and COVID-19 mortality
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- Microbiological, clinical, and PK/PD features of the new BL/BLI and cefiderocol
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- Temocillin: a carbapenem-sparing option
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- Correction: Morroni et al. Antimicrobial Activity of Aztreonam in Combination with Old and New β-Lactamase Inhibitors against MBL and ESBL Co-Producing Gram-Negative Clinical Isolates: Possible Options for the Treatment of Complicated Infections. Antib...
- It is time to define an organizational model for the prevention and management of infections along the surgical pathway: a worldwide cross-sectional survey
- Low vitamin D and low albumin are associated with threefold COVID-19 mortality.
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- HSV-1 in BAL of COVID-19 patients
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- PCSK9 in Infectious Diseases
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- Cytosorb removal of antibacterials and antifungals
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- Aspirin and infection
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- WSES/GAIS/WSIS/SIS-E/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with skin and soft tissue infections
- New bronchiectasis in COVID-19 may suggest aspergillosis
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- Antibiotics in Liver Cirrhosis: Choosing the Right Treatment
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- Large neck = higher COVID-19 mortality
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- Zidovudine/azidothymidine (AZT) unexpressed clinical potential against multidrug-resistant Gram negatives
- HCV and nervous system disorders
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- Aztreonam + (clavulanate, sulbactam, tazobactam, vaborbactam, avibactam, zidebactam) vs ESBL and MBL
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- WSES/GAIS/SIS-E/WSIS/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with intra-abdominal infections
- Aztreonam against MBL-producing bacteria
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- Profiling of Oral Microbiota and Cytokines in COVID-19 Patients
- Fecal and serum calprotectin in COVID-19
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- Pica (Allotriophagy): An Underestimated Risk Factor for Severe Leptospirosis (Weil’s Diseases)? Report of a Leptospira Septic Shock Successfully Managed with ECMO
- Zidovudine + fosfomycin vs MDR Enterobacterales
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- Ceftazidime/avibactam resistance
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- Psoas haematoma in COVID-19 (case series)
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- Impaired Right Ventricular Longitudinal Strain Without Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients Who Have Recovered From COVID-19
- How to treat vanB VRE
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- Enterococcus BSI in Italy. Incidence and antibiotic resistance
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- Prospective Study on Incidence, Risk Factors and Outcome of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infections
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- Intravenous fosfomycin dosing regimens
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- Incidence and Prognosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19: A Multicenter Study
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- BCG infection (BCGitis)
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- Polypyridine ligands as potential metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors
- Profiling of oral microbiota and cytokines in COVID-19 patients
- Albumin binds streptolysin O (produced by S. pyogenes)
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- Extra-intestinal effects of Clostridioides difficile in zebrafish
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- Bacterial colonization of explanted non-endocarditis cardiac valves: evidence and characterization of the valvular microbiome
- Gut microbes interaction with the enteric nervous system
- Spontaneous rectal perforation in COVID-19
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- Fosfomycin + chloramphenicol vs VRE
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- COVID-19-Induced Thrombosis in Patients without Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Elevated Fecal Calprotectin: Hypothesis Regarding Mechanism of Intestinal Damage Associated with COVID-19
- Painful thoracic swelling in a refugee teenager
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- The Model for Early COvid-19 Recognition (MECOR) Score: A Proof-of-Concept for a Simple and Low-Cost Tool to Recognize a Possible Viral Etiology in Community-Acquired Pneumonia Patients during COVID-19 Outbreak
- With which antibiotics does fosfomycin synergize?
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- Interferon: The invisible link in the physiopathology of COVID‐19 and BCGitis?
- Antimicrobial stewardship examples
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- Bezlotoxumab for Preventing Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection: A Narrative Review from Pathophysiology to Clinical Studies
- COVID-19 patients with "large neck" are more frequently intubated
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- Zinc chelators restore meropenem activity against MBL-producing bacteria
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- Community pharmacists' exposure to COVID-19
- Use of colistin in adult patients: A cross-sectional study
- Dengue vaccines
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- Measles pathophysiology
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- A proposal for a comprehensive approach to infections across the surgical pathway
- Clinical Features and Mortality of Nosocomial Candidemia in Very Old Patients: A Multicentre Italian Study
- CSF pentraxin 3 in meningitis/encephalitis
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- Mycobacterium chimaera infections
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- Tuberculosis screening in outpatient healthcare workers: lessons from a high-income, low TB burden country
- Management of aortic prosthesis infections.
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- Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE)
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- 2019 update of the WSES guidelines for management of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection in surgical patients
- Septic Cardiomyopathy and Bacterial Exotoxins
- Colistin-associated acute kidney injury is higher in patients with low albumin
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- History of schistosomiasis
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- Human albumin neutralizes Clostridioides difficile toxins
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- Role of fecal microbiota transplantation in inflammatory bowel disease
- Emergence of quinolone-resistant Shigella flexneri in Italy (March 2017)
- Clinical management of non-faecium non-faecalis VRE
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- Evaluation and Management of Lower-Extremity Ulcers
- Nosocomial Infections During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Janeway lesions
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- Infections during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis and prevention
- Fever and Vision Loss in an Immunocompetent 20-Year-Old Male
- Question: Fever and Vision Loss in an Immunocompetent 20-Year-Old Male
- Extraintestinal effects of Clostridioides difficile toxins
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- Hertoghe sign: a hallmark of lepromatous leprosy
- Re: The challenge of Clostridium difficile infection: Overview of clinical manifestations, diagnostic tools and therapeutic options
- Lock therapy with tigecycline for Klebsiella pneumoniae KPC
- Albumin prevents death in enterocytes exposed to Clostridioides difficile toxin B
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- WSES guidelines for management of Clostridium difficile infection in surgical patients
- The impact of Clostridium difficile infection on resource use and costs in hospitals in Spain and Italy: a matched cohort study
- Is tigecycline a suitable option for Clostridium difficile infection? Evidence from the literature
- Painful Lesions In An HIV-1 Seropositive African Woman.
- Clostridium difficile infection among hospitalized HIV-infected individuals: epidemiology and risk factors: results from a case-control study (2002-2013)
- Uterus-God in the Michealngelo's painting "Creation of Adam"
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- Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for Clostridium difficile infection: Focus on immunocompromised patients
- Could chloramphenicol be used against ESKAPE pathogens? A review ofin vitrodata in the literature from the 21st century
- Acinetobacter Infections
- Management of antibiotic resistance in the intensive care unit setting from an international perspective
- Holoinspiratory Wheezing in a 46-Year-Old HIV-Seropositive Man
- Fecal microbiota transplantation: the state of the art
- Are There Reasons To Prefer Tetracyclines to Macrolides in Older Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia?
- Carbapenemase-producingKlebsiella pneumoniae-related mortality among solid organ-transplanted patients: do we know enough?
- Telavancin and daptomycin activity against meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains after vancomycin-resistance selection in vitro
- Multiple Bilateral Pulmonary “Fungus Balls” in an Immunocompetent Patient Unsuitable for Surgical Treatment: Efficacy of Azoles Treatment
- Clostridium difficile infection in Italian urban hospitals: data from 2006 through 2011
- P231: Risk factors for Acinetobacter baumannii colonization and infection among patients admitted to intensive care units
- Clostridium difficile 027 infection in Central Italy
- When an Infection Prompts Removal of an Unnecessary Device
- Kaposi’s sarcoma symmetric mucosal lesions
- Cases of cryptosporidiosis co-infections in AIDS patients: a correlation between clinical presentation and GP60 subgenotype lineages from aged formalin-fixed stool samples
- Vertebral Lesions from AIDS-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma
- Salmonella enterica ssp. arizonae infection in a 43-year-old Italian man with hypoglobulinemia: a case report and review of the literature
- Selenium deficiency and HIV infection
- Management of antibiotic resistance in the intensive care unit setting
- The novel influenza A (H1N1) virus pandemic: An update