Massimo Pizzuto

TL;DR: Antibodies to KSHV are detectable in the sera from most transplant recipients before initiation of immunosuppressive treatment suggesting that KS among Immunosuppressed transplant patients is primarily due to virus reactivation.

TL;DR: PCR with peripheral blood is a reliable method for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in HIV-infected patients during follow-up and it substantially reduces the need for traditional invasive tests to assess parasitological response, while a positive PCR result is predictive of clinical relapse.

TL;DR: The restricted organ distribution here documented argues for a selective tissue tropism of HHV-8 in vivo in AIDS patients and suggests that in the infected host lymphoid organs and the prostate gland may represent privileged sites of viral latency and persistence.

TL;DR: A case of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) in a woman with AIDS which occurred 13 months after a diagnosis of visceral leish maniasis concomitantly with immunological recovery induced by highly active retroviral therapy is reported.

TL;DR: PB PCR allows a rapid and noninvasive parasitologic diagnosis of Mediterranean VL among immunocompetent children and is at least as sensitive as a diagnosis made on the basis of BM aspirates and the lack of disappearance from BM and the reappearance of positive PCR on PB is predictive of clinical relapse.