Gabriel Adrian Popescu

Institutul de Boli Infectioase Matei Bals, Bucuresti, .

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Nascut(a) in: 1963

Interese: sepsis, endocarditis, antimicrobial resistance, hepatitis

Details:
 1982-1988: "Carol Davila" University of Medicine Bucharest.
 1989-1990: general practitioner training scheme (Coltea Hospital Bucharest);
 1991-1994: residency in infectious diseases;
 1992: assistant professor "Carol Davila" University of Medicine, Bucharest;
 1994: infectious diseases specialist;
 1998: senior physician in infectious diseases;
 2000: Advanced Study Institute - NATO, Corfu, Greece, "Aetiology and treatment of acute lung injury: from bench to bedside";
 2001: Advanced Study Institute - NATO , Crete, Greece "Disease markers in exhaled breath: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Applications";

Publications:
- Co-author of : "Infective endocarditis", 1999
- Co-author of: "Sepsis. Pros and Cons", 2002
- Co-author of : The Guide Angelescu. Antimicrobial therapy 2004 and 2005 (second edition)
- 23 posters at International Congreses
- 6 papers in international journals (1 letter):
1) "Aortic Prosthetic Endocarditis with Neisseria elongata subspp nitroreducens" - C Picu, Catherine Mille, Gabriel-Adrian Popescu, Laurent Bret, Thierry Prazuck - Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 35, no. 4, 2003, pp.280-2

2)."Substitution of Efavirenz or nevirapine for a protease inhibitor in patients with undetectable viral load: a 2-year European retrospective multicenter study"- Thierry Prazuck, Christian Rabaud, Jean Marc Besnier, Patrice Poubeau, GA Popescu, Vitor Duque, Frederic Bastides, Antonio Melico-Sylvestre - HIV & AIDS Current Trends, vol 9, nr.3, 2003

3). "Treatment difficulties of a listerial rhombencephalitis in an adult allergic to penicillins''- GA Popescu, Mathieu Saquepee, Didier Poisson, Thierry Prazuck - Journal of Clinical Pathology , vol 57, 2004, pp 665-666

4). "Staphylococcus aureus and E. hermanii in diabetes patient" (letter) - GA Popescu, C Popescu, Ioana Daha - Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol.10, 2004, pp 1335-1336

5) "An Unusual Bacterium, Aerococcus viridans, and Four Cases of Infective Endocarditis" -
Gabriel-Adrian Popescu, Elisabeta Benea, Elena Mitache, Cornelia Piper, Dieter Horstkotte - The Journal of Heart Valve Disease 2005;14:317-319

6)"Meningitis due to an unusual human pathogen: Streptococcus equi subspecies equi" Popescu Gabriel Adrian, Raluca Fuerea, Elisabeta Benea -Southern Medical Journal 2006 Feb;99:190-1

Research:
Project manager for "Optimizing the management of chronic hepatitis D (HDV) using the molecular diagnosis techniques. Implications on improvement of HDV infection epidemiological study in Bucharest" - CEEX 2005 approved project.

Prizes: 8 (5 at national congresses, 3 at international conferences).

Publicații selectate:

* Popescu GA, Gavriliu L, Popescu C, Popoiu M, Popa G., Successful oral therapy switch to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole in the case of an Enterococcus faecium liver abscess, The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 62, 2008.

* Popescu GA, Daha I, Popescu C, Mitache E., Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia hermanii in diabetes patient., Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10, 2004.

* Picu C, Mille C, Popescu GA, Bret L, Prazuck T., Aortic Prosthetic Endocarditis with Neisseria elongata subspp nitroreducen, Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Disease, 35, 2003.

* Popescu GA, Benea E, Mitache E, Piper C, Horstkotte D, An Unusual Bacterium, Aerococcus viridans, and Four Cases of Infective Endocarditis, The Journal of Heart Valve Disease, 14, 2005.

* Popescu GA, Immunocompromised host (especially HIV-positive) the target of pyomyositis in temperate regions, Southern Medical Journal, 101, 2008.

* Popescu GA, The emerging role of group A beta hemolytic Streptococcus as retropharyngeal abscess pathogen in children--a change which doesn't matter?, Southern Medical Journal, 99, 2006.

* Gabriel Adrian Popescu, Mathieu Saquepee, Didier Poisson, Thierry Prazuck, Treatment difficulties of a listerial rhombencephalitis in an adult allergic to penicillins, Journal of Clinical Pathology, 57, 2004.

* Gabriel-Adrian Popescu; Raluca Fuerea; Elisabeta Benea, Meningitis Due to an Unusual Human Pathogen: Streptococcus equi subspecies equi, Southern Medical Journal, vol 99, 2006.