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Cristian Apetrei is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Virology, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Emergency Medicine.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including HIV Research and Treatment, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, HIV-related health complications and treatments, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, and T-cell and B-cell Immunology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Apetrei include Ivona Pandrea, Cuiling Xu, Adam J. Kleinman, Dongzhu Ma, and Egidio Brocca-Cofano.

Publications by Cristian Apetrei appear regularly in several notable venues. The most frequent publication venues are Frontiers in Immunology, Journal of Virology, Frontiers in Public Health, Nature Communications, and Viruses.

Recent papers include the following:

  • CCR5 as a Coreceptor for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses: A Prototypic Love-Hate Affair (2022, Frontiers in Immunology)
  • African green monkeys avoid SIV disease progression by preventing intestinal dysfunction and maintaining mucosal barrier integrity (2020, PLoS Pathogens)
  • New SHIVs and Improved Design Strategy for Modeling HIV-1 Transmission, Immunopathogenesis, Prevention, and Cure (2021, Journal of Virology)
  • COVID-19 in Romania: What Went Wrong? (2021, Frontiers in Public Health)
  • The Hitchhiker Guide to CD4+ T-Cell Depletion in Lentiviral Infection. A Critical Review of the Dynamics of the CD4+ T Cells in SIV and HIV Infection (2021, Frontiers in Immunology)

Best Publications

  • Antiinflammatory profiles during primary SIV infection in African green monkeys are associated with protection against AIDS

    Christopher Kornfeld;Mickaël J.-Y. Ploquin;Ivona Pandrea;Abdourahmane Faye

  • Severe Depletion of Mucosal CD4+ T Cells in AIDS-Free Simian Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Sooty Mangabeys

    Shari N. Gordon;Nichole R. Klatt;Nichole R. Klatt;Steven E. Bosinger;Jason M. Brenchley

  • Downregulation of Robust Acute Type I Interferon Responses Distinguishes Nonpathogenic Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) Infection of Natural Hosts from Pathogenic SIV Infection of Rhesus Macaques

    Levelle D. Harris;Brian Tabb;Donald L. Sodora;Mirko Paiardini

  • Acute loss of intestinal CD4+ T cells is not predictive of simian immunodeficiency virus virulence.

    Ivona V. Pandrea;Rajeev Gautam;Ruy M. Ribeiro;Jason M. Brenchley

  • Island Biogeography Reveals the Deep History of SIV

    Michael Worobey;Paul Telfer;Sandrine Souquière;Meredith Hunter

  • Going Wild: Lessons from Naturally Occurring T-Lymphotropic Lentiviruses

    Sue VandeWoude;Cristian Apetrei

  • Toward an AIDS vaccine: lessons from natural simian immunodeficiency virus infections of African nonhuman primate hosts.

    Donald L. Sodora;Jonathan S. Allan;Cristian Apetrei;Cristian Apetrei;Jason M. Brenchley

  • Susceptibility of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 group O isolates to antiretroviral agents: in vitro phenotypic and genotypic analyses.

    D Descamps;G Collin;F Letourneur;C Apetrei

  • Envelope residue 375 substitutions in simian–human immunodeficiency viruses enhance CD4 binding and replication in rhesus macaques

    Hui Li;Shuyi Wang;Rui Kong;Wenge Ding

  • Low levels of SIV infection in sooty mangabey central memory CD4 + T cells are associated with limited CCR5 expression

    Mirko Paiardini;Barbara Cervasi;Barbara Cervasi;Elane Reyes-Aviles;Luca Micci;Luca Micci

  • Paucity of CD4+CCR5+ T cells is a typical feature of natural SIV hosts.

    Ivona Pandrea;Cristian Apetrei;Shari N Gordon;Shari N Gordon;Joseph Barbercheck

  • HIV Sequence Compendium 2018

    Brian Thomas Foley;Bette Tina Marie Korber;Thomas Kenneth Leitner;Cristian Apetrei

  • Into the wild: simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection in natural hosts.

    Ivona Pandrea;Donald L. Sodora;Guido Silvestri;Cristian Apetrei

  • Cutting Edge: Experimentally Induced Immune Activation in Natural Hosts of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Induces Significant Increases in Viral Replication and CD4+ T Cell Depletion

    Ivona Pandrea;Thaidra Gaufin;Jason M. Brenchley;Rajeev Gautam

  • CD4 downregulation by memory CD4+ T cells in vivo renders African green monkeys resistant to progressive SIVagm infection.

    Coreen M Beaumier;Levelle D Harris;Simoy Goldstein;Nichole R Klatt

  • Molecular Epidemiology of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus SIVsm in U.S. Primate Centers Unravels the Origin of SIVmac and SIVstm

    Cristian Apetrei;Amitinder Kaur;Nicholas W. Lerche;Michael Metzger

  • CD8+ Lymphocytes Control Viral Replication in SIVmac239-Infected Rhesus Macaques without Decreasing the Lifespan of Productively Infected Cells

    Nichole R. Klatt;Nichole R. Klatt;Emi Shudo;Alex M. Ortiz;Jessica C. Engram

  • The history of SIVS and AIDS: epidemiology, phylogeny and biology of isolates from naturally SIV infected non-human primates (NHP) in Africa.

    Cristian Apetrei;David L. Robertson;Preston A. Marx

  • Classic AIDS in a Sooty Mangabey after an 18-Year Natural Infection

    Binhua Ling;Cristian Apetrei;Ivona Pandrea;Ronald S. Veazey

  • Mucosal immune dysfunction in AIDS pathogenesis.

    Mirko Paiardini;Ian Frank;Ivona Pandrea;Cristian Apetrei

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivona Pandrea
Ivona Pandrea University of Pittsburgh
Guido Silvestri
Guido Silvestri Emory University
Preston A. Marx
Preston A. Marx Tulane University
François Simon
François Simon Université Paris Cité
Ruy M. Ribeiro
Ruy M. Ribeiro Los Alamos National Laboratory
Pierre Roques
Pierre Roques University of Paris-Saclay
Françoise Brun-Vézinet
Françoise Brun-Vézinet Université Paris Cité
Beatrice H. Hahn
Beatrice H. Hahn University of Pennsylvania
Mirko Paiardini
Mirko Paiardini Emory University
Jason M. Brenchley
Jason M. Brenchley National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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