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Antonella Sarasini

Antonella Sarasini

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Immunology

D-Index
50
Citations
8623
World Ranking
4256
National Ranking
178

Overview

Antonella Sarasini is affiliated with the University of Pavia in Italy, focusing primarily on medicine with a substantial emphasis on infectious diseases. Their research spans several subfields including epidemiology, oncology, neurology, and health.

Their work extensively covers topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, encompassing clinical research studies, detection and testing methodologies, as well as vaccine coverage and hesitancy. Additionally, their research interests include the impacts of COVID-19 on healthcare systems and investigations into cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus infections and treatments.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Sarasini include:

  • Mechanism of baricitinib supports artificial intelligence-predicted testing in COVID-19 patients, 2020, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Persistence of SARS-CoV-2-specific B and T cell responses in convalescent COVID-19 patients 6-8 months after the infection, 2021, Med
  • Clinical and Analytical Performance of an Automated Serological Test That Identifies S1/S2-Neutralizing IgG in COVID-19 Patients Semiquantitatively, 2020, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough infections with the alpha variant are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic among health care workers, 2021, Nature Communications
  • West Nile or Usutu Virus? A Three-Year Follow-Up of Humoral and Cellular Response in a Group of Asymptomatic Blood Donors, 2020, Viruses

Frequent collaborators in Sarasini's research include:

  • Fausto Baldanti
  • Irene Cassaniti
  • Elena Percivalle
  • Daniele Lilleri
  • Alessandro Ferrari

Sarasini has published notably in venues such as:

  • ESMO Open
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Eurosurveillance
  • Microorganisms

Best Publications

  • Human Cytomegalovirus UL131-128 Genes Are Indispensable for Virus Growth in Endothelial Cells and Virus Transfer to Leukocytes

    Gabriele Hahn;Maria Grazia Revello;Marco Patrone;Elena Percivalle

  • Isolation of human monoclonal antibodies that potently neutralize human cytomegalovirus infection by targeting different epitopes on the gH/gL/UL128-131A complex.

    Annalisa Macagno;Nadia L. Bernasconi;Fabrizia Vanzetta;Erica Dander

  • Human cytomegalovirus serum neutralizing antibodies block virus infection of endothelial/ epithelial cells, but not fibroblasts, early during primary infection

    Giuseppe Gerna;Antonella Sarasini;Marco Patrone;Elena Percivalle

  • Mechanism of baricitinib supports artificial intelligence-predicted testing in COVID-19 patients.

    Justin Stebbing;Venkatesh Krishnan;Stephanie de Bono;Silvia Ottaviani

  • Human Cytomegalovirus in Blood of Immunocompetent Persons during Primary Infection: Prognostic Implications for Pregnancy

    Maria Grazia Revello;Maurizio Zavattoni;Antonella Sarasini;Elena Percivalle

  • Sequential mutations associated with adaptation of human cytomegalovirus to growth in cell culture

    Derrick J. Dargan;Elaine Douglas;Charles Cunningham;Fiona Jamieson

  • Single amino acid changes in the DNA polymerase confer foscarnet resistance and slow-growth phenotype, while mutations in the UL97-encoded phosphotransferase confer ganciclovir resistance in three double-resistant human cytomegalovirus strains recovered from patients with AIDS.

    Fausto Baldanti;Mark R. Underwood;Sylvia C. Stanat;Karen K. Biron

  • Isolation and characterization of two distinct human rotavirus strains with G6 specificity.

    G Gerna;A Sarasini;M Parea;S Arista

  • Genetic variability of human coronavirus OC43-, 229E-, and NL63-like strains and their association with lower respiratory tract infections of hospitalized infants and immunocompromised patients.

    Giuseppe Gerna;Giulia Campanini;Francesca Rovida;Elena Percivalle

  • High Levels of Epstein-Barr Virus DNA in Blood of Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients and Their Value in Predicting Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders

    Fausto Baldanti;Paolo Grossi;Milena Furione;Lavinia Simoncini

  • Fetal human cytomegalovirus transmission correlates with delayed maternal antibodies to gH/gL/pUL128-130-131 complex during primary infection.

    Daniele Lilleri;Anna Kabanova;Maria Grazia Revello;Elena Percivalle

  • Clinical and Analytical Performance of an Automated Serological Test That Identifies S1/S2-Neutralizing IgG in COVID-19 Patients Semiquantitatively.

    Fabrizio Bonelli;Antonella Sarasini;Claudia Zierold;Mariella Calleri

  • Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 specific B- and T-cell responses in convalescent COVID-19 patients 6-8 months after the infection.

    Natalia Sherina;Antonio Piralla;Likun Du;Hui Wan

  • Diagnostic and prognostic value of human cytomegalovirus load and IgM antibody in blood of congenitally infected newborns.

    Maria Grazia Revello;Maurizio Zavattoni;Fausto Baldanti;Antonella Sarasini

  • Comparative quantitation of human cytomegalovirus DNA in blood leukocytes and plasma of transplant and AIDS patients.

    G Gerna;M Furione;F Baldanti;A Sarasini

  • In vitro selection of human cytomegalovirus variants unable to transfer virus and virus products from infected cells to polymorphonuclear leukocytes and to grow in endothelial cells

    M. Grazia Revello;Fausto Baldanti;Elena Percivalle;Antonella Sarasini

  • Human respiratory coronavirus HKU1 versus other coronavirus infections in Italian hospitalised patients.

    Giuseppe Gerna;Elena Percivalle;Antonella Sarasini;Giulia Campanini

  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA contamination of inanimate surfaces and virus viability in a health care emergency unit.

    M. Colaneri;E. Seminari;S. Novati;E. Asperges

  • Improved prenatal diagnosis of congenital human cytomegalovirus infection by a modified nested polymerase chain reaction

    Maria Grazia Revello;Antonella Sarasini;Maurizio Zavattoni;Fausto Baldanti

  • A three-nucleotide deletion in the UL97 open reading frame is responsible for the ganciclovir resistance of a human cytomegalovirus clinical isolate.

    F Baldanti;E Silini;A Sarasini;C L Talarico

  • Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 specific B- and T-cell responses in convalescent COVID-19 patients 6-8 months after the infection

    Natalia Sherina;Antonio Piralla;Likun Du;Hui Wan

Frequent Co-Authors

Fausto Baldanti
Fausto Baldanti University of Pavia
Giuseppe Gerna
Giuseppe Gerna University of Pavia
Elena Percivalle
Elena Percivalle University of Pavia
Daniele Lilleri
Daniele Lilleri University of Pavia
Maria Grazia Revello
Maria Grazia Revello University of Milan
Antonio Piralla
Antonio Piralla Policlinico San Matteo Fondazione
Yee-Joo Tan
Yee-Joo Tan National University of Singapore
Michael Hust
Michael Hust Technische Universität Braunschweig
Catherine Klersy
Catherine Klersy University of Pavia

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