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List of works by Antonella Mencacci

A commercially available multiplex real-time PCR for detection of pathogens in cardiac valves from patients with infective endocarditis.

scientific article published on 21 December 2013

A mannoprotein constituent of Candida albicans that elicits different levels of delayed-type hypersensitivity, cytokine production, and anticandidal protection in mice.

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A multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate from a lethal case of sepsis induces necrosis of human neutrophils

scientific article published on 2 May 2006

A prediction model for real-time PCR results in blood samples from febrile patients with suspected sepsis.

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

A synthetic peptide as a novel anticryptococcal agent

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Accelerate Pheno™ blood culture detection system: a literature review

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Achromobacter denitrificans renal abscess

scientific article published on March 31, 2012

Aeromonas veronii biovar veronii septicaemia and acute suppurative cholangitis in a patient with hepatitis B.

scientific article published in August 2003

An immunoregulatory role for neutrophils in CD4+ T helper subset selection in mice with candidiasis

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

Antifungal type 1 responses are upregulated in IL-10-deficient mice.

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Antigen-specific cytolysis of infected cells in murine candidiasis

scientific article published on 01 May 1992

CD4+ T-helper-cell responses in mice with low-level Candida albicans infection.

scientific article published on December 1996

CD80+Gr-1+ myeloid cells inhibit development of antifungal Th1 immunity in mice with candidiasis.

scientific article published in September 2002

Cervical spondylodiscitis with spinal epidural abscess caused by Aggregatibacter aphrophilus

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Changing antimicrobial resistance profiles among Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in Italy, 2003 to 2012.

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Community-acquired mastitis due to Mycobacterium abscessus: a case report.

scientific article published on 17 November 2009

Comparison of conventional culture with SeptiFast real-time PCR for microbial pathogen detection in clinical specimens other than blood.

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Comparison of the BD Phoenix system with the cefoxitin disk diffusion test for detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci.

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Course of primary candidiasis in T cell-depleted mice infected with attenuated variant cells.

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Cure of murine candidiasis by recombinant soluble interleukin-4 receptor

scientific article published on 01 June 1994

Cytokine- and T helper-dependent lung mucosal immunity in mice with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis.

scientific article published in December 1998

Cytokine- and T-helper-dependent immunity in murine aspergillosis

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

Cytokines and mycoses.

scientific article published in January 1998

Cytokines in candidiasis and aspergillosis.

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Defective co-stimulation and impaired Th1 development in tumor necrosis factor/lymphotoxin-alpha double-deficient mice infected with Candida albicans.

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Diagnosis of infective endocarditis: comparison of the LightCycler SeptiFast real-time PCR with blood culture.

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

Diagnostic performance of a multiple real-time PCR assay in patients with suspected sepsis hospitalized in an internal medicine ward

scientific article published on 8 February 2012

Early aetiological agent identification of osteomyelitis with the Light Cycler SeptiFast test from peripheral blood.

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Epidemic diffusion of OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in Italy: results of the first cross-sectional countrywide survey

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Examination of bacterial contamination at the time of embryo transfer, and its impact on the IVF/pregnancy outcome.

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Fatal Nocardia farcinica Bacteremia Diagnosed by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry in a Patient with Myelodysplastic Syndrome Treated with Corticosteroids

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Fusobacterium nucleatum endocarditis mimicking polymyalgia rheumatica.

scientific article published in October 2009

Host Immune Reactivity Determines the Efficacy of Combination Immunotherapy and Antifungal Chemotherapy in Candidiasis

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

IFN-gamma is required for IL-12 responsiveness in mice with Candida albicans infection

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IL-10 is required for development of protective Th1 responses in IL-12-deficient mice upon Candida albicans infection.

scientific article published in December 1998

IL-12 is both required and prognostic in vivo for T helper type 1 differentiation in murine candidiasis.

scientific article published in December 1994

IL-22 and IDO1 affect immunity and tolerance to murine and human vaginal candidiasis

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

IL12 in Candida albicans infections.

scientific article published on September 1995

Immunoregulatory role of different T cell subsets in murine candidiasis.

scientific article published in September 1992

Impaired antifungal effector activity but not inflammatory cell recruitment in interleukin-6-deficient mice with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

scientific article published on 30 July 2001

Impaired neutrophil response and CD4+ T helper cell 1 development in interleukin 6-deficient mice infected with Candida albicans

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In vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Ampicillin-Ceftriaxone and Ampicillin-Ertapenem Combinations Against Clinical Isolates of Enterococcus faecalis with High Levels of Aminoglycoside Resistance.

scientific article published on 9 June 2008

Induction of Protective Th1 Responses toCandida albicansby Antifungal Therapy Alone or in Combination with an Interleukin‐4 Antagonist

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Innate and adaptive immunity to Candida albicans: A new view of an old paradigm

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Interleukin 18 restores defective Th1 immunity to Candida albicans in caspase 1-deficient mice

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Interleukin-12 but not interferon-γ production correlates with induction of T helper type-1 phenotype in murine candidiasis

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Interleukin-4 and -10 exacerbate candidiasis in mice.

scientific article published in June 1995

Interleukin-4 causes susceptibility to invasive pulmonary aspergillosis through suppression of protective type I responses.

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Iron overload alters innate and T helper cell responses to Candida albicans in mice.

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Is recurrence possible in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Case series and systematic review of literature

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Laboratory automation reduces time to report of positive blood cultures and improves management of patients with bloodstream infection

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

Legionella pneumophila serogroup 3 pneumonia in a patient with low-grade 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a case report

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

Mechanisms of cell-mediated immunity in fungal infection.

scientific article published on January 1994

Microbial and vaginal determinants influencing Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum genital colonization in a population of female patients.

scientific article published on September 2013

Modulation of phenotype and function of dendritic cells by a therapeutic synthetic killer peptide

scientific article published on 21 October 2005

Mucosal and systemic T helper cell function after intragastric colonization of adult mice with Candida albicans.

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Neutrophil production of IL-12 and IL-10 in candidiasis and efficacy of IL-12 therapy in neutropenic mice.

scientific article published in June 1997

Neutrophils Producing Interleukin-10 Antagonize the Effect of Interleukin-12 in Mice with Candidiasis

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Neutrophils and the adaptive immune response to Candida albicans

scientific article published on October 1996

Pathogenic NLRP3 Inflammasome Activity during Candida Infection Is Negatively Regulated by IL-22 via Activation of NLRC4 and IL-1Ra

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Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis in a population of Italian and immigrant outpatients.

scientific article published in June 2012

Procalcitonin better than C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and white blood cell count in predicting DNAemia in patients with sepsis.

scientific article published on 8 September 2014

Procalcitonin levels in gram-positive, gram-negative, and fungal bloodstream infections.

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Procalcitonin predicts real-time PCR results in blood samples from patients with suspected sepsis

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Protection of killer antiidiotypic antibodies against early invasive aspergillosis in a murine model of allogeneic T-cell-depleted bone marrow transplantation

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Rapid identification of bacterial and fungal pathogens from positive blood cultures by MALDI-TOF MS.

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Specific and non-specific immunity to Candida albicans a lesson from genetically modified animals

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

T cell vaccination in mice with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis.

scientific article published in July 2000

T helper cell type 1 (Th1)- and Th2-like responses are present in mice with gastric candidiasis but protective immunity is associated with Th1 development.

scientific article published in May 1995

TGF-beta is important in determining the in vivo patterns of susceptibility or resistance in mice infected with Candida albicans

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Tolerability and efficacy of long-term treatment with daptomycin, ceftazidime and colistin in a patient with a polymicrobial, multidrug-resistant prosthetic joint reinfection: a case report.

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Tolerance to staphylococcal enterotoxin B initiated Th1 cell differentiation in mice infected with Candida albicans

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Type 1 and type 2 cytokines: from basic science to fungal infections

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Typing of nosocomial outbreaks of Acinetobacter baumannii by use of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry

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