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Maria Elena Tosti
Researcher at Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Publications - 150
Citations - 4775
Maria Elena Tosti is an academic researcher from Istituto Superiore di Sanità. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatitis B & Viral hepatitis. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 131 publications receiving 4258 citations. Previous affiliations of Maria Elena Tosti include Catholic University of the Sacred Heart & University of Turin.
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Infections caused by filamentous fungi in patients with hematologic malignancies. A report of 391 cases by GIMEMA Infection Program.
Livio Pagano,Corrado Girmenia,Luca Mele,P Ricci,Maria Elena Tosti,Annamaria Nosari,Massimo Buelli,M. Picardi,Bernardino Allione,L Corvatta,Domenico D'Antonio,Marco Montillo,L Melillo,Anna Chierichini,A Cenacchi,Anna Tonso,Laura Cudillo,Anna Candoni,C Savignano,A Bonini,Pietro Martino,A. Del Favero,Gimema Infection Program,Gruppo Italiano Malattie Ematologiche dell'Adulto +23 more
TL;DR: A retrospective study shows that FFI still remains a life-threatening complication in neutropenic patients and that the use of glucocorticoids and recovery from neutropenia are the most important prognostic factors.
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Characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma in Italy
Tommaso Stroffolini,Pietro Andreone,Angelo Andriulli,Antonio Ascione,Antonio Craxì,Maria Chiaramonte,Domenico Galante,Onofrio Giuseppe Manghisi,Roberto Mazzanti,Cinzia Medaglia,Giampaolo Pilleri,Gian Ludovico Rapaccini,R. G. Simonetti,Gloria Taliani,Maria Elena Tosti,Erica Villa,Giovanni Gasbarrini +16 more
TL;DR: Achange in the relative prevalence of hepatitis virus markers among hepatocellular carcinoma cases was demonstrated, reflecting a significant change in the rate of HBV endemicity in the Italian population.
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Hepatitis E virus: Assessment of the epidemiological situation in humans in Europe, 2014/15 ☆
Cornelia Adlhoch,Ana Avellón,Sally A. Baylis,Anna Rita Ciccaglione,Elisabeth Couturier,Rita de Sousa,Jevgenia Epstein,Steen Ethelberg,Mirko Faber,Agnes Feher,Samreen Ijaz,Heidi Lange,Zdenka Manďáková,Kassiani Mellou,Antons Mozalevskis,Ruska Rimhanen-Finne,Valentina Rizzi,Bengü Said,Lena Sundqvist,Lelia Thornton,Maria Elena Tosti,Wilfrid van Pelt,Esther J. Aspinall,Dragoslav Domanovic,Ettore Severi,Johanna Takkinen,Harry R. Dalton +26 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed surveillance systems for human cases of HEV in EU/EEA countries and nominated experts assessed the epidemiology in particular examining the recent increase in the number of autochthonous cases.
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Efficacy of hepatitis A vaccine in prevention of secondary hepatitis A infection: a randomised trial.
Luciano Sagliocca,P. Amoroso,Tommaso Stroffolini,Brunella Adamo,Maria Elena Tosti,Gennaro Lettieri,Ciro Esposito,Salvatore Buonocore,Paola Pierri,Alfonso Mele +9 more
TL;DR: Hepatitis A vaccine is effective in the prevention of secondary infection of HAV and should be recommended for household contacts of primary cases of Hav infection.
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Hepatitis C virus infection and alanine transaminase levels in the general population: a survey in a southern Italian town.
Giuseppe Maio,Paolo D'Argenio,Tommaso Stroffolini,A. Bozza,Lea Sacco,Maria Elena Tosti,Michele Intorcia,Elena Fossi,Giovanna D'Alessio,Loreta A. Kondili,Maria Rapicetta,Alfonso Mele +11 more
TL;DR: These findings confirm that HCV infection is endemic in southern Italy, particularly among the elderly and that percutaneous exposure, such as injections with nondisposable, multiple-use, glass syringes used in the past for medical purposes may have played a major role in the spread of HCV infections.