List of works by Francesco Castelli

'Baggage malaria' in Italy: cryptic malaria explained?

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A COPD Case-Finding Program in a Large Cohort of HIV-Infected Persons

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

A Case of Rickettsia felis Infection Imported From Nepal

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A Strange Manifestation of Malaria in a Native Nigerian Boy.

scientific article published on March 2017

A case of melioidosis probably acquired by inhalation of dusts during a helicopter flight in a healthy traveler returning from Singapore.

scientific article published on 2 September 2014

Abdominal aortitis and aneurysm impending rupture during pneumococcal meningitis.

scientific article published on August 2016

Active tuberculosis case finding among pregnant women: a pilot project in Burkina Faso.

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Acute HIV infection at travel clinics – Authors' reply

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Acute and potentially life-threatening tropical diseases in western travelers--a GeoSentinel multicenter study, 1996-2011

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Acute epididymo-orchitis due to Salmonella Typhi in a young man from Bangladesh

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

Acute respiratory distress syndrome in Plasmodium vivax malaria in traveler returning from Venezuela.

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Age-Specific Anti-Hepatitis A Virus Seroepidemiology in Italian Travelers: Indications for Anti-Hepatitis A Vaccination.

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Algorithm-based management of pneumonia in HIV-1-infected patients.

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An immune-based biomarker signature is associated with mortality in COVID-19 patients

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

An intricate case of multidrug resistant Plasmodium falciparum isolate imported from Cambodia

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Analysis of HIV-1 mutation patterns in patients failing antiretroviral therapy.

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Antimicrobial prevention and therapy for travelers' infection.

scientific article published on December 2007

Antiretroviral (ARV) Therapy in Resource Poor Countries: What do we Need in Real Life?

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Atazanavir intracellular concentrations remain stable during pregnancy in HIV-infected patients

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Bacterial Blood Stream Infections Negatively Impact on Outcome of Patients Treated with Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation: 6 Years Single-Centre Experience

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Bcl-2 expression is moderately correlated with long-term variability of CD4 T-cell increase under successful highly active antiretroviral therapy

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Biliary and kidney lithiasis during treatment with daclatasvir/sofosbuvir/ribavirin and atazanavir/ritonavir + abacavir/lamivudine in an HIV/HCV genotype 4-infected patient: a case report

scientific article published on February 2017

Characteristics and Outcome of a Cohort of HIV-1 Non-B Subtype-Infected Patients After a 10-Year Follow-up Period: A Single Centre Experience

scientific article published on May 2017

Characterization of viro-immunological responses in a closely followed cohort of heavily pretreated patients: evidence from the GenPheRex Study.

scientific article published on July 2003

Chronic kidney disease in low-middle income populations: a call to action for screening and prevention

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Circulating levels of IL-18 in adult and paediatric patients with HIV-1 infection

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Clinical Care of Hematological Patients in a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit: Do Human Resources Influence Infection Incidence?

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Clinical and epidemiological features of HIV/AIDS infection among migrants at first access to healthcare services as compared to Italian patients in Italy: a retrospective multicentre study, 2000-2010.

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Colitis during new direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) therapy with sofosbuvir, simeprevir and ribavirin for genotype 1b hepatitis C.

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Comparison between the gold standard DXA with calcaneal quantitative ultrasound based-strategy (QUS) to detect osteoporosis in an HIV infected cohort.

scientific article published on 23 September 2017

Comparison of pharmacokinetics and dynamics of two dosage regimens of foscarnet in AIDS patients with Cytomegalovirus retinitis.

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Congenital Plasmodium vivax malaria mimicking neonatal sepsis: a case report.

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Correction to: The diagnosis and treatment of urogenital schistosomiasis in Italy in a retrospective cohort of immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Dead blood under my skin.

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Depressive disorders and personality variables in HIV positive and negative intravenous drug-users.

scientific article published in June 2001

Different immunologic profiles characterize HIV infection in highly active antiretroviral therapy-treated and antiretroviral-naïve patients with undetectable viraemia

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Differential production of IFN-gamma, analyzed at the single-cell level, by specific subsets of human NK and T cells from healthy and HIV(+) subjects.

scientific article published in March 2000

Dolutegravir-rilpivirine: First 2-Drug regimen for HIV-positive adults

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Drivers of migration: why do people move?

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Durability of Second Antiretroviral Regimens in the Italian Cohort Naive Antiretrovirals Foundation Study and Factors Associated with Discontinuation.

scientific article published in December 2017

Early and late effects of highly active antiretroviral therapy: a 2 year follow-up of antiviral-treated and antiviral-naive chronically HIV-infected patients

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Effectiveness and safety of switching to entecavir hepatitis B patients developing kidney dysfunction during tenofovir

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

Effectiveness of kidney transplantation in HIV-infected recipients under combination antiretroviral therapy: a single-cohort experience (Brescia, Northern Italy).

scientific article published on 4 November 2017

Efficacy of artesunate plus chloroquine for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in children in Burkina Faso: a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial.

scientific article published on May 2003

Efficacy of artesunate plus chloroquine for uncomplicated malaria in children in Sao Tome and Principe: a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial.

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Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of dolutegravir-rilpivirine for the maintenance of virological suppression in adults with HIV-1: phase 3, randomised, non-inferiority SWORD-1 and SWORD-2 studies

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Embracing the challenges of migration medicine

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Epidemiological features and case management practices of imported malaria in northern Italy 1991-1995.

scientific article published on October 1999

Epidemiology of malaria in endemic areas.

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Epidemiology of traveler's diarrhea

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Evaluation of a PfHRP-2 based rapid diagnostic test versus microscopy method among HIV-positive and unknown serology patients in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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Evidence of HIV-2 infection in northern Italy

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

Febrile rhabdomyolysis of unknown origin in refugees coming from West Africa through the Mediterranean.

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Filgrastim to treat neutropenia and support myelosuppressive medication dosing in HIV infection. G-CSF 92105 Study Group.

scientific article published in December 1996

Follow-up after gastrectomy for cancer: the Charter Scaligero Consensus Conference.

scientific article published on 04 July 2015

Forty Meals for a Drop of Blood …

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Fulminant septic shock caused by Capnocytophaga canimorsus in Italy: case report.

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Genotype resistance profiles in patients failing an NNRTI-containing regimen, and modifications after stopping NNRTI therapy.

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Genotypic testing on HIV-1 DNA as a tool to assess HIV-1 co-receptor usage in clinical practice: results from the DIVA study group

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

GeoSentinel surveillance of illness in returned travelers, 2007-2011

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HCVerso1 and 2: faldaprevir with deleobuvir (BI 207127) and ribavirin for treatment-naïve patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype-1b infection.

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Haematobium eggs detection in human bladder cancer and sporocysts in snail vectors: Seven cases report and a review of the Burkina Faso literature.

scientific article published on 03 August 2012

Higher short-term virologic efficacy of three-class versus two-class highly active antiretroviral salvage therapy in HIV-infected patients.

scientific article published in May 2000

Human mobility and disease: a global challenge

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Humans parasitized by the hard tick Ixodes ricinus are seropositive to Midichloria mitochondrii: is Midichloria a novel pathogen, or just a marker of tick bite?

scientific article published on November 2012

Illness in Children After International Travel: Analysis From the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network

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Imported Chikungunya Infection, Italy.

scientific article published on August 2007

Imported Plasmodium vivax malaria ex Pakistan

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Imported malaria in northern Italy: epidemiology and clinical features observed over 18 years in the Teaching Hospital of Brescia

scientific article published in January 2018

Incidence of AIDS-defining cancers and virus-related and non-virus-related non-AIDS-defining cancers among HIV-infected patients compared with the general population in a large health district of Northern Italy, 1999-2009.

scientific article published on 7 April 2013

Incidence of cardiovascular events in HIV-positive patients compared to general population over the last decade: a population-based study from 2000 to 2012.

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Infectious diseases at different stages of migration: an expert review

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Infective endocarditis in patients with hepatic diseases.

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) regarding newborn feeding modalities in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicentre study.

scientific article published on March 2011

Laboratory considerations amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak: the Spedali Civili in Brescia experience

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Long-lasting humoral immune response induced in HIV-1-infected patients by a synthetic peptide (AT20) derived from the HIV-1 matrix protein p17 functional epitope

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

Long-term benefit of genotypic-guided therapy and prevalence of multinucleoside resistance in an Italian group of antiretroviral multiexperienced patients.

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Long-term immunological benefit in patients with discordant responses to therapy depends on both level of viremia and duration of rebound

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Long-term response in patients receiving HAART including nelfinavir: experience from two Italian centers.

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Louse-borne relapsing fever in a refugee from Mali.

scientific article published on 4 February 2017

Low-level viraemia, measured as viraemia copy-years, as a prognostic factor for medium-long-term all-cause mortality: a MASTER cohort study.

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Maternal HIV status and infant feeding practices among Ugandan women.

scientific article published on July 2010

Migration Health: Highlights from Inaugural International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) Conference on Migration Health

scientific article published on 16 November 2019

Migration Medicine

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Migration and chronic noncommunicable diseases: is the paradigm shifting?

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Migration and infectious diseases.

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Miscarriage following dengue virus 3 infection in the first six weeks of pregnancy of a dengue virus-naive traveller returning from Bali to Italy, April 2016

scientific article (publication date: 4 August 2016)

Naive CD4+ T lymphocytes express high levels of Bcl-2 after highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection.

scientific article published in November 2000

New Italian guidelines for malaria prophylaxis in travellers to endemic areas.

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Non-typhoidal Salmonella aortitis

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Outcome and predictive factors of mortality in hospitalized HIV-patients in Burkina Faso.

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Pathogenesis of malaria in tissues and blood.

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Perinatally HIV-Infected Youths After Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care, a Single-Center Experience from Northern Italy.

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Peripheral loss of regulatory T cells and polyautoimmunity in an HIV-infected patient

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Pharmacokinetic Changes during Pregnancy According to Genetic Variants: A Prospective Study in HIV-infected Patients Receiving Atazanavir/Ritonavir.

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Plasmodium vivax malaria in a drug addict in Italy.

scientific article published in January 1985

Point-of-care screening, prevalence, and risk factors for hepatitis B infection among 3,728 mainly undocumented migrants from non-EU countries in northern Italy.

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Predictors of long-term immunological outcome in rebounding patients on protease inhibitor-based HAART after initial successful virologic suppression: implications for timing to switch.

scientific article published on September 2003

Predictors of trend in CD4-positive T-cell count and mortality among HIV-1-infected individuals with virological failure to all three antiretroviral-drug classes

scientific article published in The Lancet

Preterm delivery risk in migrants in Italy: an observational prospective study.

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Prevalence of anti-poliovirus type 1, 2 and 3 antibodies in unvaccinated Italian travelers.

scientific article published on January 2004

Prevalence of integrase strand transfer inhibitors (InSTIs) resistance mutations in InSTIs-naive and -experienced HIV-1 infected patients: a single Center experience.

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Prognostic role of inflammatory biomarkers in HIV-infected patients with a first diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma: A single-center study

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Quantification of the impact of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase and protease mutations on the efficacy of rescue HAART.

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Real versus virtual phenotype to guide treatment in heavily pretreated patients: 48-week follow-up of the Genotipo-Fenotipo di Resistenza (GenPheRex) trial.

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Recrudescence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a primigravid woman with anaemia as the only sign of disease.

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Reversal of chloroquine resistance of ‘wild’ isolates of Plasmodium falciparum by desipramine ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1991

Risk of congenital toxoplasmosis in women with low or indeterminate anti-Toxoplasma IgG avidity index in the first trimester of pregnancy: an observational retrospective study

scientific article published on 11 October 2018

Role of bone mineral density in predicting morphometric vertebral fractures in patients with HIV infection

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

Screening for active and latent tuberculosis among asylum seekers in Italy: A retrospective cohort analysis

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Serum IgG antibodies to human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) do not predict the progression of HIV disease to AIDS. Italian Seroconversion Study group

scientific article published on 01 April 1999

Short report: imported mosquito: an uninvited guest.

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Short report: verruga peruana in an Italian traveler from Peru.

scientific article published on February 1994

Study of spontaneous apoptosis in HIV+ patients: correlation with clinical progression and T cell loss

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Sustainable Development Goals and 2030 Agenda: Awareness, Knowledge and Attitudes in Nine Italian Universities, 2019

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Sustained virological response to peginterferon therapy in patients infected with HCV (genotypes 2 and 3), with or without HIV.

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Synthetic HIV-1 matrix protein p17-based AT20-KLH therapeutic immunization in HIV-1-infected patients receiving antiretroviral treatment: A phase I safety and immunogenicity study.

scientific article published on 20 January 2014

Systemic Inflammation-Based Biomarkers and Survival in HIV-Positive Subject With Solid Cancer in an Italian Multicenter Study

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Tenofovir alafenamide plus emtricitabine versus abacavir plus lamivudine for treatment of virologically suppressed HIV-1-infected adults: a randomised, double-blind, active-controlled, non-inferiority phase 3 trial.

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Tenofovir-induced Fanconi syndrome in chronic hepatitis B monoinfected patients that reverted after tenofovir withdrawal.

scientific article published on 5 October 2014

The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Screening for Migrants in the EU/EEA: A Systematic Review

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for and Vaccination Against Hepatitis B Virus among Migrants in the EU/EEA: A Systematic Review

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

The ability of CD4+ cells from HIV+ individuals to express CD40 ligand after in vitro stimulation is not impaired

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

The burden of chronic diseases and cost-of-care in subjects with HIV infection in a Health District of Northern Italy over a 12-year period compared to that of the general population.

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The diagnosis and treatment of urogenital schistosomiasis in Italy in a retrospective cohort of immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

The impact of Xpert® MTB/RIF depends on service coordination: experience in Burkina Faso.

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The impact of antiretroviral therapy on iron homeostasis and inflammation markers in HIV-infected patients with mild anemia.

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

The placenta and malaria.

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The prognostic role of systemic inflammatory markers on HIV-infected patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a multicenter cohort study.

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The relationship between anaemia and malaria: apparently simple, yet controversial.

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The risk of late or advanced presentation of HIV infected patients is still high, associated factors evolve but impact on overall mortality is vanishing over calendar years: results from the Italian MASTER Cohort

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Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries

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Transmission of HIV-associated tuberculosis to health-care workers.

scientific article published in September 1992

Travel-related imported infections in Europe, EuroTravNet 2009.

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Trigger-oriented HIV testing at Internal Medicine hospital Departments in Northern Italy: an observational study (Fo.C.S. Study).

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When to start highly active antiretroviral therapy in chronically HIV-infected patients: evidence from the ICONA study

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Whipple's disease concomitant with candida esophagitis and subsequent Giardia lamblia coinfection

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