Professor Stefano Di Bella

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1. Article

   Sustaining Muscle, Cardiovascular Health, and the Environment: Is Plant-Based Protein the Key?
   Professor Stefano Di Bella
2. Article

   Cefepime and New Cefepime/Beta-Lactamase Inhibitor Combination for the Treatment of Gram-Negative Bacteria: Chemical Structure and Mechanism of Action, Microbiological Target, Clinical Use and PK/PD Characteristics
   Professor Stefano Di Bella
3. Article

   Therapeutic potential of butyrate supplementation in sepsis: a review of preclinical evidence and translational perspectives
   Professor Stefano Di Bella
4. Article

   Subcutaneous antibiotics in clinical practice: an alternative to intravenous therapy
   Professor Stefano Di Bella
5. Article

   West Nile virus: epidemiology, prevention, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and open research questions
   Professor Stefano Di Bella
6. Article

   Plasma glutamic acid predicts myelosuppression and mortality in septic patients using machine learning
   Professor Stefano Di Bella
7. Article

   A case of syphilis in Gustav Klimt’s Medicine? Iconodiagnosis and historical review
   Professor Stefano Di Bella
8. Article

   Review of Prostatitis
   Professor Stefano Di Bella
9. Article

   Wormwood and Absinthe: From Ancient Remedies to Modern Antimicrobial Research
   Professor Stefano Di Bella
10. Article

    Synergistic activity of fosfomycin combined with old and new oxazolidinones (linezolid, contezolid, delpazolid, and sutezolid) against bloodstream isolates of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
11. Article

    How Clostridioides difficile vesicles may trigger cancer-like changes in colon cells
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
12. Article

    Continuous infusion OPAT via elastomeric pumps: effectiveness, safety, and cost-saving potential in a real-world Italian cohort
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
13. Article

    An enlightening lesson on the physician–patient relationship by Voltaire
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
14. Article

    Infectious spondylodiscitis: Epidemiology, diagnosis, microbiological findings, clinical features and outcomes in a 14-year retrospective study
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
15. Article

    No‐nose club: Sharing the stigma of syphilis in 18th‐century London
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
16. Article

    Managing Multidrug-Resistant Pandoraea spp.: current evidence and knowledge gaps
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
17. Article

    Temocillin: a reappraised antibiotic for resistant Gram-negative infections
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
18. Article

    Lower Initial Insulin-like Growth Factor-Binding Protein-3 Concentrations May Reflect Immune Suppression and Predict Increased Risk of Sepsis-Related Mortality
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
19. Article

    Human intestinal spirochetosis presenting as colonic ulceration in an immunocompetent 65-year-old man
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
20. Article

    Eat and heal. Past, present and future of maggot debridement therapy: a narrative review
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
21. Article

    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
    Professor Stefano Di BellaDr. Daniele Orso
22. Article

    Clinical impact of Staphylococcus aureus toxins
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
23. Article

    24 h continuous-infusion cefiderocol reaches PK/PD target
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
24. Article

    Intravenous fosfomycin for difficult infections
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
25. Article

    Salvage therapy of complicated Candida albicans spondylodiscitis with Rezafungin
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
26. Article

    Rare Non-Fermenting Bacteria: Treatment Options
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
27. Article

    The importance of antibiofilm antibiotics in hardware-associated infections
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
28. Article

    Tongue tremor suggesting tick-borne encephalitis
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
29. Article

    Ultrasonography for CAP diagnosis
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
30. Article

    Practical Application of Antibiotic PK/PD Principles Without Immediate Access to TDM
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
31. Article

    Fluoroquinolones' Role in Biofilm-Associated Infections
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
32. Article

    Evaluating the BioFire® Joint Infection Panel for Rapid Pathogen Detection in Non-Synovial Samples
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
33. Article

    Antibiotic resistances of Clostridium perfingens isolated from bloodstream infections
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
34. Article

    Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Current and Future Treatments
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
35. Article

    Zebrafish: A powerful model for studying the immune system's response to human infectious diseases.
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
36. Article

    HIV drugs may help treat melanoma resistant to standard BRAF-targeted therapies.
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
37. Article

    BioFire® Joint Infection Panel for Samples Other Than Synovial Fluid
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
38. Article

    Using a Fosfomycin and Oritavancin Combination in Vascular Grafts to Prevent Infection
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
39. Article

    Septic patients with elevated serum IRAK-M and galectin-1 had low survival rates.
    Professor Stefano Di BellaDr. Daniele Orso
40. Article

    Risk factors for mortality in enterococcal BSI
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
41. Article

    Predicting sepsis at emergency department triage
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
42. Article

    Temocillin + fosfomycin vs KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
43. Article

    Human serum albumin binds SARS-CoV-2 spike protein competing with ACE2
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
44. Article

    Anti-infective management of infected skin ulcers
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
45. Article

    Human Campylobacter infections in Italy
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
46. Article

    Synergistic Activity of Temocillin and Fosfomycin Combination against KPC-Producing <em>Klebsiella pneumoniae </em>Clinical Isolates
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
47. Article

    Comprehensive review on Clostridioides difficile infection in humans
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
48. Article

    The antiretroviral cabotegravir inhibits melanoma cell growth and invasion
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
49. Article

    Antibiotics Usage in Special Clinical Situations
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
50. Article

    β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitors and cefiderocol: what clinicians need to know
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
51. Article

    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    
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
52. Article

    Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma antimicrobial resistances
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
53. Article

    Enterococcal meningitis associated with Strongyloides infection
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
54. Article

    Dracunculiasis' distribution
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
55. Article

    Intravenous fosfomycin for Pseudomonas infections
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
56. Article

    New Antimicrobials for Gram-Positive Sustained Infections: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
57. Article

    Enterobius vermicularis spleen abscess
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
58. Article

    Oritavancin + fosfomycin for VRE BSI
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
59. Article

    Ralstonia mannitololytica outbreak
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
60. Article

    Endemic Systemic Mycoses in Italy: A Systematic Review of Literature and a Practical Update
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
61. Article

    New polyimidazole ligands against MBL
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
62. Article

    Ceftriaxone for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia: a matter of dosages?
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
63. Article

    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
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
64. Article

    Diverticular Disease and Rifaximin
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
65. Article

    Infective portal vein thrombosis (pylephlebitis). A clinical review
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
66. Article

    The in vitro inhibitory activity of polypyridine ligands towards subclass B1 metallo-β-lactamases
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
67. Article

    Acinetobacter resistance to sulbactam/durlobactam
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
68. Article

    Prolonged higher dose methylprednisoloneversusconventional dexamethasone in COVID-19 pneumonia: a randomised controlled trial (MEDEAS)
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
69. Article

    Oritavancin + fosfomycin against VRE
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
70. Article

    Sulbactam/durlobactam activity against Acinetobacter in Italy
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
71. Article

    Moxifloxacin vs anaerobes
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
72. Article

    HSV reactivation in COVID-19
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
73. Article

    Steroids in COVID-19 outpatients
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
74. Article

    Cutaneous nocardiosis
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
75. Article

    Bloodstream infections by anaerobes and antibiotic resistances
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
76. Article

    Editorial for the Special Issue: “Antibiotic Use in Clinical Infection: How to Reinvent Old Molecules and How to Squeeze out New Ones”
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
77. Article

    Adiponectin and leptin in COVID-19
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
78. Article

    Low albumin and COVID-19 mortality
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
79. Article

    Microbiological, clinical, and PK/PD features of the new BL/BLI and cefiderocol
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
80. Article

    Temocillin: a carbapenem-sparing option
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
81. Article

    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...
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
82. Article

    It is time to define an organizational model for the prevention and management of infections along the surgical pathway: a worldwide cross-sectional survey
    Prof. Majdi Al-HasanProfessor Dr. Ashrarur Rahman MitulAlfie J Kavalakat

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    Professor Stefano Di BellaEvgeni DimitrovDr Timothy Craig Hardcastle
83. Article

    Low vitamin D and low albumin are associated with threefold COVID-19 mortality.
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
84. Article

    HSV-1 in BAL of COVID-19 patients
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
85. Article

    PCSK9 in Infectious Diseases
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
86. Article

    Cytosorb removal of antibacterials and antifungals
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
87. Article

    Aspirin and infection
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
88. Article

    WSES/GAIS/WSIS/SIS-E/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with skin and soft tissue infections
    Professor Stefano Di BellaDr Timothy Craig Hardcastle
89. Article

    New bronchiectasis in COVID-19 may suggest aspergillosis
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
90. Article

    Antibiotics in Liver Cirrhosis: Choosing the Right Treatment
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
91. Article

    Large neck = higher COVID-19 mortality
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
92. Article

    Zidovudine/azidothymidine (AZT) unexpressed clinical potential against multidrug-resistant Gram negatives
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
93. Article

    HCV and nervous system disorders
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
94. Article

    Aztreonam + (clavulanate, sulbactam, tazobactam, vaborbactam, avibactam, zidebactam) vs ESBL and MBL
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
95. Article

    WSES/GAIS/SIS-E/WSIS/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with intra-abdominal infections
    Francesco Di MarzoProfessor Stefano Di BellaDr Timothy Craig Hardcastle
96. Article

    Aztreonam against MBL-producing bacteria
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
97. Article

    Profiling of Oral Microbiota and Cytokines in COVID-19 Patients
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
98. Article

    Fecal and serum calprotectin in COVID-19
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
99. Article

    Pica (Allotriophagy): An Underestimated Risk Factor for Severe Leptospirosis (Weil’s Diseases)? Report of a Leptospira Septic Shock Successfully Managed with ECMO
    Professor Stefano Di Bella
100. Article

     Zidovudine + fosfomycin vs MDR Enterobacterales
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
101. Article

     Ceftazidime/avibactam resistance
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
102. Article

     Psoas haematoma in COVID-19 (case series)
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
103. Article

     Impaired Right Ventricular Longitudinal Strain Without Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients Who Have Recovered From COVID-19
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
104. Article

     How to treat vanB VRE
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
105. Article

     Enterococcus BSI in Italy. Incidence and antibiotic resistance
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
106. Article

     Prospective Study on Incidence, Risk Factors and Outcome of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infections
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
107. Article

     Intravenous fosfomycin dosing regimens
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
108. Article

     Incidence and Prognosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19: A Multicenter Study
     Professor Stefano Di BellaMD Massimo Girardis
109. Article

     BCG infection (BCGitis)
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
110. Article

     Polypyridine ligands as potential metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
111. Article

     Profiling of oral microbiota and cytokines in COVID-19 patients
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
112. Article

     Albumin binds streptolysin O (produced by S. pyogenes)
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
113. Article

     Extra-intestinal effects of Clostridioides difficile in zebrafish
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
114. Article

     Bacterial colonization of explanted non-endocarditis cardiac valves: evidence and characterization of the valvular microbiome
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
115. Article

     Gut microbes interaction with the enteric nervous system
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
116. Article

     Spontaneous rectal perforation in COVID-19
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
117. Article

     Fosfomycin + chloramphenicol vs VRE
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
118. Article

     COVID-19-Induced Thrombosis in Patients without Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Elevated Fecal Calprotectin: Hypothesis Regarding Mechanism of Intestinal Damage Associated with COVID-19
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
119. Article

     Painful thoracic swelling in a refugee teenager
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
120. Article

     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
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
121. Article

     With which antibiotics does fosfomycin synergize?
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
122. Article

     Interferon: The invisible link in the physiopathology of COVID‐19 and BCGitis?
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
123. Article

     Antimicrobial stewardship examples
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
124. Article

     Bezlotoxumab for Preventing Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection: A Narrative Review from Pathophysiology to Clinical Studies
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
125. Article

     COVID-19 patients with "large neck" are more frequently intubated
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
126. Article

     Zinc chelators restore meropenem activity against MBL-producing bacteria
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
127. Article

     Community pharmacists' exposure to COVID-19
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
128. Article

     Use of colistin in adult patients: A cross-sectional study
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
129. Article

     Dengue vaccines
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
130. Article

     Measles pathophysiology
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
131. Article

     A proposal for a comprehensive approach to infections across the surgical pathway
     Francesco Di MarzoProfessor Stefano Di Bella
132. Article

     Clinical Features and Mortality of Nosocomial Candidemia in Very Old Patients: A Multicentre Italian Study
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
133. Article

     CSF pentraxin 3 in meningitis/encephalitis
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
134. Article

     Mycobacterium chimaera infections
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
135. Article

     Tuberculosis screening in outpatient healthcare workers: lessons from a high-income, low TB burden country
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
136. Article

     Management of aortic prosthesis infections.
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
137. Article

     Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE)
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
138. Article

     2019 update of the WSES guidelines for management of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection in surgical patients
     Professor Stefano Di BellaDr Salomone Di Saverio
139. Article

     Septic Cardiomyopathy and Bacterial Exotoxins
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
140. Article

     Colistin-associated acute kidney injury is higher in patients with low albumin
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
141. Article

     History of schistosomiasis
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
142. Article

     Human albumin neutralizes Clostridioides difficile toxins
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
143. Article

     Role of fecal microbiota transplantation in inflammatory bowel disease
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
144. Article

     Emergence of quinolone-resistant Shigella flexneri in Italy (March 2017)
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
145. Article

     Clinical management of non-faecium non-faecalis VRE
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
146. Article

     Evaluation and Management of Lower-Extremity Ulcers
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
147. Article

     Nosocomial Infections During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
148. Article

     Janeway lesions
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
149. Article

     Infections during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis and prevention
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
150. Article

     Fever and Vision Loss in an Immunocompetent 20-Year-Old Male
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
151. Article

     Question: Fever and Vision Loss in an Immunocompetent 20-Year-Old Male
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
152. Article

     Extraintestinal effects of Clostridioides difficile toxins
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
153. Article

     Hertoghe sign: a hallmark of lepromatous leprosy
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
154. Article

     Re: The challenge of Clostridium difficile infection: Overview of clinical manifestations, diagnostic tools and therapeutic options
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
155. Article

     Lock therapy with tigecycline for Klebsiella pneumoniae KPC
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
156. Article

     Albumin prevents death in enterocytes exposed to Clostridioides difficile toxin B
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
157. Article

     WSES guidelines for management of Clostridium difficile infection in surgical patients
     Dr Rita GaleirasProfessor Stefano Di BellaDr Mushira Abdulaziz Enani

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     Dr Yeong Yeh Lee
158. Article

     The impact of Clostridium difficile infection on resource use and costs in hospitals in Spain and Italy: a matched cohort study
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
159. Article

     Is tigecycline a suitable option for Clostridium difficile infection? Evidence from the literature
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
160. Article

     Painful Lesions In An HIV-1 Seropositive African Woman.
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
161. Article

     Clostridium difficile infection among hospitalized HIV-infected individuals: epidemiology and risk factors: results from a case-control study (2002-2013)
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
162. Article

     Uterus-God in the Michealngelo's painting "Creation of Adam"
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
163. Article

     Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for Clostridium difficile infection: Focus on immunocompromised patients
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
164. Article

     Could chloramphenicol be used against ESKAPE pathogens? A review ofin vitrodata in the literature from the 21st century
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
165. Article

     Acinetobacter Infections
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
166. Article

     Management of antibiotic resistance in the intensive care unit setting from an international perspective
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
167. Article

     Holoinspiratory Wheezing in a 46-Year-Old HIV-Seropositive Man
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
168. Article

     Fecal microbiota transplantation: the state of the art
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
169. Article

     Are There Reasons To Prefer Tetracyclines to Macrolides in Older Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia?
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
170. Article

     Carbapenemase-producingKlebsiella pneumoniae-related mortality among solid organ-transplanted patients: do we know enough?
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
171. Article

     Telavancin and daptomycin activity against meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains after vancomycin-resistance selection in vitro
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
172. Article

     Multiple Bilateral Pulmonary “Fungus Balls” in an Immunocompetent Patient Unsuitable for Surgical Treatment: Efficacy of Azoles Treatment
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
173. Article

     Clostridium difficile infection in Italian urban hospitals: data from 2006 through 2011
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
174. Article

     P231: Risk factors for Acinetobacter baumannii colonization and infection among patients admitted to intensive care units
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
175. Article

     Clostridium difficile 027 infection in Central Italy
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
176. Article

     When an Infection Prompts Removal of an Unnecessary Device
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
177. Article

     Kaposi’s sarcoma symmetric mucosal lesions
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
178. Article

     Cases of cryptosporidiosis co-infections in AIDS patients: a correlation between clinical presentation and GP60 subgenotype lineages from aged formalin-fixed stool samples
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
179. Article

     Vertebral Lesions from AIDS-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
180. Article

     Salmonella enterica ssp. arizonae infection in a 43-year-old Italian man with hypoglobulinemia: a case report and review of the literature
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
181. Article

     Selenium deficiency and HIV infection
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
182. Article

     Management of antibiotic resistance in the intensive care unit setting
     Professor Stefano Di Bella
183. Article

     The novel influenza A (H1N1) virus pandemic: An update
     Professor Stefano Di Bella