Immunocompetence

Cluster familiare di infezione da Listeria monocytogenes

Cinquatti R, Acucella G, Emmig U, Rossi C, Canale C, Folgori G, Guala A

2022/5 — pag. 102-105 — DOI

Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive facultative intracellular bacterium; it is transmitted to humans through the ingestion of contaminated food. Patients are typically immunosuppressed individuals, pregnant women, newborns and elderly people. I...

Meningite da Escherichia coli in un bambino immunocompetente

M. Biagioni, S. Francolini, G. Brusa, E. Moschini, R. Genga, D. Carboni, N. Filomeni

2015/9

Bacterial meningitis is a severe infection associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity. Gram-negative enteric bacillary meningitis (GNEBM) is very unusual outside the newborn period and cerebral-spinal fluid (CSF) fistulas must be suspected...

Eruzione vescicolo-bollosa in un bambino immunocompetente

S. Buffoni, E. Bailo

2010/5 — pag. 323-324

Un caso di bartonellosi viscerale in paziente immunocompetente

R. Grazioli, R. Milani Capialbi, F. Marchetti, A. Bettinelli

2008/6 — pag. 395-397

We report a case of a 5-year-old immunocompetent boy with persistent fever and a diffuse enlargement of laterocervical lymph nodes. We performed first an abdominal ultrasonography and then a CT showed multiple hepatosplenic abscesses. Later the f...

Un caso di bartonellosi viscerale in paziente immunocompetente

R. Grazioli, R. Milani Capialbi, F. Marchetti, A. Bettinelli

2008/6

Herpes zoster nei primi mesi di vita

G. Sarracco, F. Quarantiello, M. Ferro, F. Cusano

2001/6

Varicella e aciclovir

E. Neri, I. Bruno, C. Salvatore, F. Braida, E. Barbi

2000/6 — pag. 377-381

Chicken pox is still a common disease, usually with a favourable course. Complications are rare (2-3/100.000) in immunocompetent patients. The Authors review the published experience regarding treatment with acyclovir and conclude that the advantag...