Skip to main content

and
  1. Article

    Open Access

    Failure of levofloxacin treatment in community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia

    Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). High global incidence of macrolide and penicillin resistance has been reported, whereas fluoroquinolone resistance is uncommon...

    Andrea Endimiani, Gioconda Brigante, Alessia A Bettaccini in BMC Infectious Diseases (2005)

  2. Article

    Open Access

    Culture of skeletal myoblasts from human donors aged over 40 years: dynamics of cell growth and expression of differentiation markers

    Local myogenesis, neoangiogenesis and homing of progenitor cells from the bone marrow appear to contribute to repair of the infarcted myocardium. Implantation into heart tissues of autologous skeletal myoblast...

    Andreina Baj, Alessia A Bettaccini, Rosario Casalone in Journal of Translational Medicine (2005)

  3. Article

    Open Access

    Proliferative activity of extracellular HIV-1 Tat protein in human epithelial cells: expression profile of pathogenetically relevant genes

    Tat is being tested as a component of HIV vaccines. Tat activity has been mainly investigated on cells of lymphoid/hematopoietic lineages. HIV-1, however, is known to infect many different cells of both solid ...

    Alessia A Bettaccini, Andreina Baj, Roberto S Accolla, Fulvio Basolo in BMC Microbiology (2005)