Infectious and tropical diseases

Pizzol D., Putoto G., Chhaganlal K.D.
Virus diseases, 2016 June

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection known. It spreads easily because individuals who contract the virus often have no symptoms and are therefore unaware that they are infected. Although HPV infection is frequently asymptomatic and transitory, it can persist and cause lesions including warts, condylomas and cancers depending on the risk [...]

Ajelli M., Parlamento S., Bome D., Kebbi A., Atzori A., Frasson C., Putoto G., Carraro D., Merler S.
BMC Medicine, 2015 November

The 2014–2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic ha colpito duramente il West Africa, soprattutto Guinea, Sierra Leone e Liberia, with a total of 28,220 reported cases and 11,291 reported deaths (WHO, September 2015). Starting in July 2014, Doctors with Africa CUAMM worked to combat Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone’s Pujehun District, where it has been [...]

Quaglio G., Goerens C., Putoto G., Rübig P., Lafaye P., Karapiperis T., Dario C., Delaunois P., Zachariah R.
Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015 November

The Ebola epidemic that has ravaged West Africa – Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in particular – since 2014 had led to more than 28,000 reported cases by October 2015, with implications not only for the health of communities involved, but also in terms of its impact on the region’s economies and overall development and [...]

La Raja M., Musi R., Fattorini M., Piva E., Putoto G.
Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion, 2015 April

Diagnostic laboratory tests have always had the disadvantage of being too expensive for use in countries with limited resources. There is now growing interest in a new form of lab tests that go by the name “point of care testing” (POCT). POCT enables non-specialized health care personnel to carry out chemical analyses and immunology and [...]

Cortese A., Putoto G., Pecorari I., Musi R., Nunziata E.
Diagnosis, 2015 April

Laboratory medicine plays a fundamental role in ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of health care systems and making possible timely diagnoses and operations. However, in the Sub-Saharan African region it is frequently of poor quality, due in part to insufficient economic resources, in part to a lack of personnel trained in using technical diagnostic tools, [...]

Costenaro P., Penazzato M., Lundin R., Rossi G., Massavon W., Patel D., Nabachwa S., Franceschetto G., Morelli E., Bilardi D., Nannyonga M.M.,Atzori A., Mastrogiacomo M.L., Mazza A., Putoto G., Giaquinto C.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2015 March

The increase in treatments for people affected by HIV virus has led to a global reduction of new childhood infections. Nonetheless, particularly in settings with limited resources, the level of emergency is still high, despite the efforts to expand access to combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), One of the main causes of the still high percentage [...]

van der Meeren B.T., Millard P.S., Scacchetti M., Hermans M.H., Hilbink M., Concelho T.B., Ferro J.J., Wever P.C.
Tropical Medicine and International Health. 2014 February

The aim of this study was to investigate antibiotic resistance patterns, including health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) and the staphylococcal toxin Panton–Valentine leukocidin (PVL) in Mozambique’s Beira Hospital. Previous studies had been conducted on post-operative and burn wound infections at the Central Hospital of Beira and on skin and soft tissue abscesses at St. [...]

Bregani E.R., Valcarenghi C., Tien T.V., Monzani V.
International Journal of Mycobacteriology. 2013 December

Pulmonary tubercolosis (TB) is a major public health problem in developing countries. Diagnosis of the disease is often difficult, as it is based mainly on clinical criteria and simple laboratory tests that are not easily available in most health care facilities in limited-resource settings. We analyzed the data of 117 TB patients from April 2006 [...]

Berti A., Rino Bregani E., Valcarenghi C.
Infez Med, 2013 June

Meningitis is a serious disease that is found worldwide and affects people of every age. Meningococcal disease with pericarditis, whose initial symptoms can be very serious and which can progress very aggressively, is more commonly found in children. Currently there is little information available on the acute phase of the disease. Lack of access to [...]