Issue Special Issue 4/2014
Proceedings of the 7th Romanian National HIV/AIDS Congress and The 2nd Central European HIV Forum
Content (79 Articles)
Current epidemiological HIV/AIDS situation in Republic of Moldova
Lucia Pîrțînă, Angela Nagîț, Svetlana Popovici, Olga Staicova, Elena Golovco, Irina Cucerova, Iulian Oltu, Viorel Calistru
First case of recent retroviral infection after accidental occupational non-medical exposure to contaminated HIV blood in National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Prof. Dr. Matei Balş" Bucharest, Romania
Elisabeta Otilia Benea, Cozmina Andrei, Georgeta Ducu, Șerban Benea, Dan Oțelea, Sorin Petrea, Manuela Podani, Alina Cozma, Ruxandra Moroti
The dynamics of HIV trends of transmission in the Romanian cohort
Mariana Mărdărescu, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Dan Oțelea, Marieta Iancu, Sanda Vintilă, Iosif Ionel
The challenges of managing antiretroviral treatment in children perinatally infected with HIV in Romania
Alina Cibea, Mariana Mărdărescu, Cristina Petre, Ruxandra Neagu-Drăghicenoiu, Rodica Ungurianu, Sorin Petrea, Ana Maria Tudor, Delia Vlad, Carina Matei
Molecular diversity of HIV-1 in Croatia
Ivana Grgic, Ana Planinic, Lana Gorenec, Adriana Vince, Josip Begovac, Snjezana Zidovec Lepej
Mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV - almost a thing of the past? A cohort study of HIV positive women starting antiretroviral drugs in pregnancy
Hugh A Leonard, Ana Gonzalez, Lisa Burch, Neal Marshall, Fathulla Badenan, Debbie Levitt, Ana Garcia, Alison Wright, Rimi Shah, Daniel Webster, Margaret Johnson
Birth defects in HIV vertically exposed children
Ana Maria Tudor, Mariana Mărdărescu, Ioana Alina Anca, Cristina Petre, Cosmina Cristea, Ruxandra Neagu-Drăghicenoiu, Rodica Ungurianu
Antiretroviral therapy adherence monitoring and its impact on immuno-virological outcome
Alina Lobodan, Cristina Popescu, Anca Ruxandra Negru, Raluca Dulamă, Irina Lăpădat, Violeta Molagic, Mihaela Rădulescu, Raluca Jipa, Adriana Hristea, Raluca Mihăilescu, Cătălin Tilişcan, Daniela Munteanu, Raluca Năstase, Gabriel Popescu, Victoria Aramă
Low level viraemia and the risk of virological failure in HIV infected patients
Dragoş Florea, Ionelia Bâțan, Angelica Doana, Simona Paraschiv, Leontina Bănică, Dan Oțelea
Antiretroviral treatment in adult ethnobotanical intravenous drug users recently infected with HIV
Ionuț Cristian Popa, Simona Erscoiu, Cristina Pătru, Olivia Burcoş, Tatiana Stoicev, Emanoil Ceauşu, Nicoleta Pîrvu, Denis Oncel, Raia Loghin, Ana-Maria Mehedinți
Variation in CD4 cell count among IDUs versus sexually-infected HIV-positive naïve patients in Romania
Iulia Niculescu, Eliza Manea, Simona Paraschiv, Ionelia Bâțan, Adrian Abagiu, Adriana Hristea, Raluca Jipa, Cătălin Tilişcan, Raluca Mihăilescu, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Victoria Aramă, Dan Oțelea
Leptin dysfunction and the risk of dyslipidemia and metabolic syndrome in Romanian HIV-infected patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy
Cătălin Tilişcan, Raluca Mihăilescu, Daniela Munteanu, Victoria Aramă, Ana Maria Tudor, Cristina Popescu, Adriana Hristea, Anca Ruxandra Negru, Roxana Petre, Iulia Niculescu, Mihai Lazăr, Daniela Adriana Ion, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Sorin Ștefan Aramă
Betapapillomaviruses in the anal canal of HIV positive and HIV negative men who have sex with men
Mario Poljak, Boštjan Kocjan, Boštjan Mlakar, Lea Hošnjak, Kristina Fujs Komloš, Miloš Milošević, Katja Seme
Muco-cutaneous manifestations in HIV infection/AIDS
Vasile Benea, Simona Roxana Georgescu, Mircea Tampa, Mihaela Anca Benea, Elisabeta Otilia Benea, Șerban Benea
Low prevalence of hepatitis C infection among HIV-infected individuals in Slovenia: a nationwide study, 1985–2013
Katja Seme, Mateja Škamperle, Maja M Lunar, Polona Maver Vodičar, Janez Tomažič, Ludvik Vidmar, Primož Karner, Tomaž Vovko, Blaž Pečavar, Mojca Matičič, Mario Poljak
High prevalence of asymptomatic HBV chronic carriage in HIV infected long term survivors
Aura Temereanca, Luminița Ene, Adelina Rosca, Camelia Grancea, Claudia Dita, Dan Duiculescu, Cristian L Achim, Simona Ruță
Influence of liver fibrosis stage on nevirapine plasma concentration in HIV-infected patients with chronic hepatitis C virus
Gordana Dragovic, Colette Smith, Djordje Jevtovic, Mike Youle, David Back
Co-infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Estonian intravenous drug users HIV epidemic
Kristi Huik, Heli Rajasaar, Radko Avi, Merit Pauskar, Valentina Ustina, Kersti Kink, Lilia Novikova, Matti Maimets, Kai Zilmer, Irja Lutsar
Concordance between noninvasive assessments of fibrosis in patients with HIV/HIV+HBV infection
Elena Dumea, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Sorin Rugină, Lucian Cristian Petcu, Simona Claudia Cambrea
Baseline HIV-1 tropism prediction in advanced immune suppressed patients: evidence of CXCR4 viruses in IDUs infected with recombinant forms
Simona Paraschiv, Ionelia Bâțan, Leontina Bănică, Iulia Niculescu, Dan Oțelea
Forensic application of phylogenetic analysis – exploration of suspected epidemiological linkage
Marina Siljic, Dubravka Salemovic, Djordje Jevtovic, Ivana Pesic-Pavlovic, Sonja Zerjav, Valentina Nikolic, Jovan Ranin, Maja Stanojevic
Antiretroviral drug resistance and viral tropism in HIV-1 CRF06_cpx infected patients failing antiretroviral (ARV) therapy
Merit Pauskar, Kristi Huik, Radko Avi, Eveli Kallas, Ene-Ly Jõgeda, Tõnis Karki, Svetlana Semjonova, Jelena Smidt, Lilia Novikova, Külliki Ainsalu, Irja Lutsar
The characteristics of the HIV subtype B epidemic in Slovenia
Maja M Lunar, Ana B Abecasis, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Janez Tomažič, Ludvik Vidmar, Primož Karner, Tomaž D Vovko, Blaž Pečavar, Mario Poljak
Full-length genome sequences of Estonian HIV-1 CRF06 and Eastern-European subtype A1 recombinant forms
Radko Avi, Kristi Huik, Merit Pauskar, Eveli Kallas, Ene-Ly Jõgeda, Kai Zilmer, Valentina Ustina, Lilia Novikova, Tõnis Karki, Veljo Kisand, Irja Lutsar
Feasibility of testing and detection of HIV-1 drug resistance in proviral DNA
Clare L Booth, Adele McCormick, Ana Garcia-Diaz, Malcolm Macartney, Michael Youle, Margaret Johnson, Daniel Webster
Cerebral toxoplasmosis in children and adolescents from “Dr. Victor Babeş” Hospital pediatric HIV-cohort
Sebastian Smâdu, Roxana Rădoi, Eugenia Ungureanu, Cristiana Oprea, Simona Tetradov, Mihaly Enyedi, Dan Duiculescu, Luminița Ene
Epstein-Barr virus in the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV-positive patients. Observational cross-sectional study
Ruxandra V Moroti-Constantinescu, Ioana D Olaru, Adriana Hristea, Ana-Maria Petrescu, Victoria Aramă, Elisabeta O Benea, Raluca M Hrişcă, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Dan Oțelea, Dragoş Florea
Evolution of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in HIV-infected patients
Ana Maria Iancu, Dalia Sorina Carp, Simona Claudia Cambrea
Computerized screening tools for neurocognitive impairment in patients with HIV infection
Ioana-Catrinel Cercel, Șerban Polli, Oana Streinu-Cercel, Anca Streinu-Cercel, Adrian Streinu-Cercel
Naïve HIV late presenters – a study for 35 months in the Infectious Diseases Hospital Iaşi, Romania
Carmen Manciuc, Maria Alexandra Largu, Andrei Vâță, Cristina Nicolau, Liviu Jany Prisăcariu, Carmen Dorobăț
Immunizations in children exposed perinatally to HIV – from theory to practice
Delia Adelina Vlad, Mariana Mărdărescu, Cristina Petre, Ruxandra Neagu-Drăghicenoiu, Rodica Ungurianu, Sorin Petrea, Ana Maria Tudor, Alina Cibea
Evaluation of adipose tissue changes with bioimpedance and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in treatment of multi-experienced HIV-infected patients
Raluca Mihăilescu, Daniela Ioana Munteanu, Mihai Lazăr, Cătălin Tilişcan, Laura Papagheorghe, Raluca Dulama, Loredana Benea, Mihaela Rădulescu, Ana Maria Tudor, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Adriana Hristea, Anca Ruxandra Negru, Irina Lăpădat, Daniela Ion, Sorin Ștefan Aramă, Victoria Aramă, Adrian Streinu-Cercel
The prevalence of RT 245 codon polymorphisms and its association with duration of infection among HIV-1 patients in Serbia
Valentina Nikolic, Dubravka Salemovic, Djordje Jevtovic, Ivana Pesic-Pavlovic, Sonja Zerjav, Marina Siljic, Jovan Ranin, Maja Stanojevic
Characteristics of Kaposi sarcoma in HIV-infected patients
Raluca Jipa, Oana Streinu-Cercel, Șerban Benea, Iulia Niculescu, Roxana Petre, Elisabeta Otilia Benea, Ruxandra Moroti, Cristina Popescu, Victoria Aramă, Adriana Hristea
Epidemiologic patterns in HIV infection in Mureş county
Lucia Carmen Chiriac, Erzsébet Iringó Zaharia-Kézdi, Brînduşa Ţilea, Anca Georgescu, Cristina Gîrbovan, Andrea Incze, Nina-Ioana Șincu, Ioana Palcu
Late presenters (LP) in the last 3 years in the anti-AIDS center of Cluj, Romania
Corina Itu, Cristian Jianu, Mirela Flonta, Ligia Ursu, Daniela Marcu
Epidemiological aspects of HIV infection in the Republic of Moldova
Iurie Osoianu, Ala Halacu
Changes in HIV transmission profile in Arad county
Dana Negru, Teodora Olaru, Laura Nicolescu, Mirandolina Prişcă
Evaluation of anthropometric and virologic data in newborn from HIV positive mothers
Simona Claudia Cambrea, Doina Eugenia Tănase, Maria Margareta Ilie, Dalia Sorina Carp, Elena Dumea, Stela Halichidis, Lucian Cristian Petcu
Mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – experience of two AIDS centers from Romania
Liana Precupescu, Corina Itu, Carmen Chiriac, Erzsébet Iringó Zaharia-Kézdi, Mihaela Lupşe
Impact of HIV-1 infection on mortality among new diagnosed cases in a hospital in Bucharest
Simona Erscoiu, Ionuț Cristian Popa, Olivia Burcoş, Raia Loghin, Ana Maria Mehedinți, Emanoil Ceauşu
Brief intervention to strengthen adherence to ART in prison
Adrian Octavian Abagiu, Rodica Gruia, Laurentia Florentina Ștefan
Characteristic of HIV/AIDS infected patients at the detection and HAART initiation
Tiberiu Holban, Ina Bîstrițchi, Constantin Spânu, Angela Nagîț
The impact of infectious diseases on personality traits - comparative study on HIV versus hepatitis B and C
Carmen Manciuc, Maria Alexandra Largu, Andrei Vâță, Cristina Nicolau, Liviu Jany Prisăcariu, Daniela Stoica, Carmen Dorobăț
Epidermodysplasia verruciformis in a HIV patient – case report
Anca Răducan, Adina Alexandru, Irina Magdalena Dumitru, Sorin Rugină
HIV-associated Burkitt lymphoma with bone marrow and cerebral invasion in a patient with history of Plasmodium falciparum infection
Irina Lăpădat, Cristina Popescu, Raluca Dulamă, Alina Lobodan, Anca Ruxandra Negru, Mihaela Rădulescu, Violeta Molagic, Ruxandra Moroti, Cătălin Tilişcan, Victoria Aramă
Liver damage in HIV+HBV co-infected patients determined by transient elastography
Elena Dumea, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Sorin Rugină, Lucian Cristian Petcu, Zizi Niculescu, Alina Doina Nicoară, Simona Claudia Cambrea
Comparative analysis on HIV patient survival in Arad county
Laura Nicolescu, Dana Negru, Teodora Olaru, Mirandolina Prişcă
Chronic diarrhea in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Cristina Olariu, Adriana Nurciu
Severe sepsis with Hafnia alvei and dual pulmonary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pneumocystis carinii in a late presenter patient infected with HIV – case presentation
Andreea Ardeleanu, Ovidiu Roşca, Monica Cialma, Daniela Desagă, Ingrid Deak
Hepatitis C cell culture system – a valuable tool for understanding viral resistance mechanisms
Costin-Ioan Popescu, Ovidiu Vlaicu, Leontina Bănică, Simona Paraschiv, Dan Oțelea
Incidence and clinical forms of tuberculosis in HIV infected adults: 2013 versus 2007
Olivia Burcoṣ, Simona Erscoiu, Ionuț Cristian Popa, Cristina Pătru, Tatiana Stoicev, Olimpia Nicolaescu, Maria Nica, Andreea Todiran, Grațiela Ţârdei, Emanoil Ceauşu
Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS infected persons in the western part of Romania in 2013
Voichița Lăzureanu, Teodora Moisil², Virgil Musta, Maria Cerbu², Emilia Nicoară, Narcisa Nicolescu, Ruxandra Laza, Alexandru Crişan
Investigation on antigangliosides antibodies in asymptomatic HIV patients
Ilinca Nicolae, Corina Daniela Ene Nicolae, Emanoil Ceauşu
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in HIV infected patients from the cohort of “Dr Victor Babeş” Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
Simona Tetradov, Sebastian Smâdu, Luminița Ene, Roxana Rădoi, Cristiana Oprea, Ruxandra Burlacu, Dan Duiculescu
Avascular osteonecrosis mechanism – between osteoporosis and antiphospholipid syndrome
Anca Ruxandra Negru, Cristina Popescu, Alina Lobodan, Raluca Dulamă, Irina Lăpădat, Mihaela Rădulescu, Victoria Aramă
Comorbidities in HIV infected patients admitted to County Infectious Diseases Hospital Tg-Mureş in 2013
Erzsébet Iringó Zaharia-Kézdi, Lucia Carmen Chiriac, Andrea Incze, Franciska Kristaly, Nina-Ioana Șincu
Risk factors in HIV/AIDS patients with cryptococcal meningitis
Ioana Bădicuț, Simona Paraschiv, Alina Borcan, Daniela Tălăpan, Olga Dorobăț
Difficulties in controlling HIV and TB infections in multi-experienced patients
Șerban Benea, Elisabeta Otilia Benea, Mihaela Ionică, Daniela Camburu, Liana Gavriliu, Georgeta Ducu, Alina Cozma
The multiple faces of tuberculosis in HIV infected patients – a continuous challenge
Raluca Ioana Dulamă, Cristina Popescu, Irina Lăpădat, Alina Lobodan, Anca Ruxandra Negru, Mihaela Rădulescu, Cătălin Tilişcan, Violeta Molagic, Raluca Năstase, Roxana Petre, Victoria Aramă
Metabolic complications during HIV-treatment with protease inhibitors in patients from Braşov
Maria-Elena Cocuz, Rodica Silaghi, Bianca Nedelcu, Geta Manea
The risk for developing neurological sufferances in Romanian HIV infected patients – predictive criteria
Lucian Giubelan, Augustin Cupşa, Florentina Dumitrescu, Andreea Stoian, Irina Niculescu
PML-not a surprise in four young HIV infected patients
Andreea Cioară, Cristian Marcu, Roxana Iubu, Daniela Marcu, Ariana Almaşu, Mirela Flonta, Mihaela Lupşe, Corina Itu
Prevalence of hypertension (HT) among HIV infected patients from Galați
Miruna Drăgănescu, Manuela Arbune
Difficulties in the management of the meningitis with C. neoformans
Elisabeta Otilia Benea, Doina Niculescu-Lupu, Șerban Benea, Daniela Camburu, Manuela Podani, Mihaela Ionica, Cozmina Andrei
Assessment of neurocognitive impairment in HIV-infected patients from the Regional Center Mureş
Mariana Georgescu, Carmen Chiriac, Erzsébet Iringó Zaharia-Kézdi, Nina Șincu
Two cases of HIVAN in young AIDS patients
Rodica Costa, Mihai Gafencu, Raluca Isac, Valeria Bică, Gabriela Doroş
Latero-cervical lymph node tuberculosis and brachial herpes zoster in a patient diagnosed with HIV infection
Iosif Marincu, Emilian Popovici, Patricia Poptelecan, Sorina Laitin, Nicoleta Bertici, Livius Ţîrnea
Issues in cytomegalovirus chronic infection in HIV patients
Arbune Manuela, Miruna Drăgănescu, Dana Tutunaru, Costinela Georgescu
Disseminated toxoplasmosis in an HIV positive patient in cART era
Simona Claudia Cambrea, Sorina Dalia Carp, Stela Halichidis
Challenges in treating HIV-infected patient with disseminated Kaposi`s sarcoma and miliary TB
Ana Maria Iancu, Irina Dumitru, Roxana Cernat, Sorin Rugină
Opportunistic infections and immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in HIV infected patient – late presenter in cART era: case report
Corina Mitroi-Maxim, Elena Dumea, Stela Halichidis, Sorin Rugină, Elisabeta Otilia Benea, Ruxandra Moroti, Eugenia Muja, Ghiulendan Resul, Elena Dantes, Simona Claudia Cambrea
Helicobacter pylori – HIV co-infection and dyspepsia
Nina-Ioana Șincu, Lucia Carmen Chiriac, Erzsébet Iringó Zaharia-Kézdi, Brînduşa Ţilea, Anca Georgescu, Cristina Gîrbovan, Andrea Incze, Andreea Bodea, Simona Bățagă
Relative risks for digestive and respiratory episodes in patients with HIV co-infection
Mirandolina Prişcă, Dana Negru, Laura Nicolescu, Teodora Olaru
Favorable outcome of pregnancy on antiretroviral treatment in a patient with HIV-infection
Iosif Marincu, Emilian Popovici, Sorina Laitin, Valeria Bică, Patricia Poptelecan, Livius Ţîrnea
Controversies in the management of HIV-positive adults and review of the literature - a case report
Manuela Arbune, Anca Arbune
An obstacle to overcome: cerebral toxoplasmosis in patients living with HIV
Irina Filipescu, Roxana Iubu, Cristian Marcu, Violeta Năstase, Mirela Flonta, Ligia Ursu, Corina Itu
Generalized Molluscum contagiosum in an HIV infected patient
Ovidiu Roşca, Andreea Ardeleanu, Caius Solovan
Adult cell leukemia (ATL) in a patient with HTLV infection - case presentation
Gabriel Colțan, Cristina Marin, Mariana Anghel, Tatiana Colțan, Mihai Olariu, Ana Maria Vlădăreanu, Elena Ambrus, Irina Pârvu