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    External quality assessment of HIV-1 DNA quantification assays used in the clinical setting in Italy

    Total cell-associated HIV-1 DNA is a surrogate marker of the HIV-1 reservoir, however, certified systems for its quantification are not available. The Italian HIV DNA Network was launched to validate HIV-1 DNA...

    Ilaria Vicenti, Filippo Dragoni, Alessia Giannini, Anna Casabianca in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Analysis of HIV quasispecies and virological outcome of an HIV D+/R+ kidney–liver transplantation

    Transplantation among HIV positive patients may be a valuable therapeutic intervention. This study involves an HIV D+/R+ kidney–liver transplantation, where PBMC-associated HIV quasispecies were analyzed in do...

    Gabriella Rozera, Ubaldo Visco-Comandini, Emanuela Giombini in Virology Journal (2022)

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    Multi-omics approach to COVID-19: a domain-based literature review

    Omics data, driven by rapid advances in laboratory techniques, have been generated very quickly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our aim is to use omics data to highlight the involvement of specific pathways, as ...

    Chiara Montaldo, Francesco Messina, Isabella Abbate in Journal of Translational Medicine (2021)

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    Iron overload down-regulates the expression of the HIV-1 Rev cofactor eIF5A in infected T lymphocytes

    Changes in iron metabolism frequently accompany HIV-1 infection. However, while many clinical and in vitro studies report iron overload exacerbates the development of infection, many others have found no corre...

    Carmine Mancone, Alessio Grimaldi, Giulia Refolo, Isabella Abbate in Proteome Science (2017)

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    HCV full-length genome reconstruction with sequence independent amplification combined with next generation sequencing

    Barbara Bartolini, Emanuela Giombini, Isabella Abbate in Retrovirology (2012)

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    Combinatorial analysis and algorithms for quasispecies reconstruction using next-generation sequencing

    Next-generation sequencing (NGS) offers a unique opportunity for high-throughput genomics and has potential to replace Sanger sequencing in many fields, including de-novo sequencing, re-sequencing, meta-genomi...

    Mattia CF Prosperi, Luciano Prosperi, Alessandro Bruselles in BMC Bioinformatics (2011)

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    Co-receptor usage prediction at quasispecies level using ultra-deep pyrosequencing on both circulating and proviral hiv in patients candidates to CCR5 antagonist treatment

    Isabella Abbate, Gabriella Rozera, Chiara Tommasi, Alessandro Bruselles in Retrovirology (2010)

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    Massively parallel pyrosequencing highlights minority variants in the HIV-1 env quasispecies deriving from lymphomonocyte sub-populations

    Virus-associated cell membrane proteins acquired by HIV-1 during budding may give information on the cellular source of circulating virions. In the present study, by applying immunosorting of the virus and of ...

    Gabriella Rozera, Isabella Abbate, Alessandro Bruselles, Crhysoula Vlassi in Retrovirology (2009)