Malaria and COVID-19: common and different findings

F Di Gennaro, C Marotta, P Locantore, D Pizzol… - Tropical medicine and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Malaria and COVID-19 may have similar aspects and seem to have a strong potential for
mutual influence. They have already caused millions of deaths, and the regions where …

Recent advances in targeting malaria with nanotechnology-based drug carriers

H Rashidzadeh, SJ Tabatabaei Rezaei… - Pharmaceutical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Malaria, as one of the most common human infectious diseases, remains the greatest global
health concern, since approximately 3.5 billion people around the world, especially those in …

Potential role of vitamins A, B, C, D and E in TB treatment and prevention: a narrative review

G Patti, C Pellegrino, A Ricciardi, R Novara, S Cotugno… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's top infectious killers, in fact every
year 10 million people fall ill with TB and 1.5 million people die from TB. Vitamins have an …

Prevalence and associated factors of malaria in children under the age of five years in Wogera district, northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

AT Tsegaye, A Ayele, S Birhanu - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Malaria is a major public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, and children
are especially vulnerable. In 2019, an estimated 409,000 people died of malaria, most …

Active pulmonary tuberculosis in elderly patients: a 2016–2019 retrospective analysis from an Italian Referral Hospital

F Di Gennaro, P Vittozzi, G Gualano, M Musso, S Mosti… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tuberculosis (TB) in the elderly (> 65 years old) has increasingly become a global health
problem. It has long been recognized that older people are vulnerable to developing …

Focused ultrasound to diagnose HIV-associated tuberculosis (FASH) in the extremely resource-limited setting of South Sudan: a cross-sectional study

F Bobbio, F Di Gennaro, C Marotta, J Kok, G Akec… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective Our cross-sectional study aimed at evaluating the diagnostic performance of
Focused Assessment with Sonography for HIV-associated tuberculosis (FASH) to detect …

Malaria prevalence in HIV-positive children, pregnant women, and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

ST Mirzohreh, H Safarpour, AS Pagheh, B Bangoura… - Parasites & …, 2022 - Springer
Background Malaria in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients is an ever-
increasing global burden for human health. The present meta-analysis summarizes …

Laparoscopy in low-income countries: 10-year experience and systematic literature review

D Pizzol, M Trott, I Grabovac, M Antunes… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Laparoscopy is a procedure that ultimately reduces hospital stay time and speeds up post-
operative recovery. It is mainly performed in high-income countries but its implementation in …

County-level factors affecting Latino HIV disparities in the United States

ND Benbow, DA Aaby, ES Rosenberg, CH Brown - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Objective To determine which county-level social, economic, demographic, epidemiologic
and access to care factors are associated with Latino/non-Latino White disparities in …

Mozambican adolescents and youths during the COVID-19 pandemic: knowledge and awareness gaps in the provinces of sofala and tete

C Marotta, U Nacareia, AS Estevez, F Tognon… - Healthcare, 2021 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Mozambique has an average population age of 17 years and adolescents
and youths have a pivotal role in SARS-CoV-2 pandemic control.(2) Methods: We conducted …