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Daniela M. Cirillo is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy. Their primary field of study is medicine, with a focus on infectious diseases, epidemiology, surgery, molecular biology, and molecular medicine. Cirillo's research predominantly revolves around tuberculosis and related bacterial infections.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment

Cirillo has authored numerous papers, with some notable recent publications including:

  • "The 2021 WHO catalogue of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex mutations associated with drug resistance: a genotypic analysis" (2022), published in The Lancet Microbe
  • "MDR/XDR-TB management of patients and contacts: Challenges facing the new decade. The 2020 clinical update by the Global Tuberculosis Network" (2020), published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • "Population structure, biogeography and transmissibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Epidemic and pandemic viral infections: impact on tuberculosis and the lung" (2020), published in European Respiratory Journal
  • "Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis" (2024), published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers

The venues where Cirillo frequently publishes research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • Journal of Cystic Fibrosis

Frequent collaborators of Cirillo consist of:

  • Francesca Saluzzo
  • Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe
  • Nicola Ivan Lorè
  • Paolo Miotto
  • Andrea Spitaleri

Their scholarly contributions mainly address the challenges in infectious disease management, particularly the diagnosis, epidemiology, and resistance mechanisms of tuberculosis-causing bacteria. Cirillo's publication record spans a variety of subfields related to molecular medicine and infectious diseases, supporting interdisciplinary approaches to tuberculosis research and treatment strategies.

Best Publications

  • Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries

    Knut Lönnroth;Giovanni Battista Migliori;Ibrahim Abubakar;Lia D'Ambrosio

  • Macrophage‐dependent induction of the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 type III secretion system and its role in intracellular survival

    Daniela Maria Cirillo;Raphael H. Valdivia;Denise M. Monack;Stanley Falkow

  • LTBI: latent tuberculosis infection or lasting immune responses to M. tuberculosis? A TBNET consensus statement.

    U Mack;G B Migliori;M Sester;H L Rieder

  • Interferon-γ release assays for the diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    R. Diel;D. Goletti;G. Ferrara;G. Bothamley

  • Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance: a prospective multicentre diagnostic accuracy study

    Susan E Dorman;Samuel G Schumacher;David Alland;Pamela Nabeta

  • The New Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra: Improving Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Resistance to Rifampin in an Assay Suitable for Point-of-Care Testing.

    Soumitesh Chakravorty;Ann Marie Simmons;Mazhgan Rowneki;Heta Parmar

  • Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage

    Matthias Merker;Camille Blin;Stefano Mona;Nicolas Duforet-Frebourg

  • Rous sarcoma virus-transformed fibroblasts adhere primarily at discrete protrusions of the ventral membrane called podosomes.

    Guido Tarone;Daniela Cirillo;Filippo G. Giancotti;Paolo M. Comoglio

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages.

    David Stucki;David Stucki;Daniela Brites;Daniela Brites;Leïla Jeljeli;Mireia Coscolla;Mireia Coscolla

  • Prediction of Susceptibility to First-Line Tuberculosis Drugs by DNA Sequencing.

    Caroline Allix-Béguec;Irena Arandjelovic

  • Clinical validation of Xpert MTB/RIF for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis

    Enrico Tortoli;Cristina Russo;Claudio Piersimoni;Ester Mazzola

  • Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: current standards and open issues.

    Conor J. Meehan;Galo A. Goig;Thomas A. Kohl;Lennert Verboven

  • Management of patients with multidrug-resistant/extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET consensus statement

    Christoph Lange;Ibrahim Abubakar;Jan Willem C. Alffenaar;Graham Bothamley

  • Cell-substratum interaction of cultured avian osteoclasts is mediated by specific adhesion structures.

    P C Marchisio;D Cirillo;L Naldini;M V Primavera

  • A standardised method for interpreting the association between mutations and phenotypic drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Paolo Miotto;Belay Tessema;Elisa Tagliani;Leonid Chindelevitch

  • Rapid molecular TB diagnosis: Evidence, policy making and global implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF

    Karin Weyer;Fuad Mirzayev;Giovanni Battista Migliori;Wayne Van Gemert

  • PhyResSE: a Web Tool Delineating Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antibiotic Resistance and Lineage from Whole-Genome Sequencing Data

    Silke Feuerriegel;Viola Schleusener;Patrick Beckert;Thomas A. Kohl

  • Dynamic antibody responses to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteome

    Shajo Kunnath-Velayudhan;Hugh Salamon;Hui Yun Wang;Amy L. Davidow

  • Risk Assessment of Tuberculosis in Immunocompromised Patients. A TBNET Study

    Martina Sester;Frank van Leth;Judith Bruchfeld;Dragos Bumbacea

  • First tuberculosis cases in Italy resistant to all tested drugs.

    G B Migliori;G De Iaco;G Besozzi;R Centis

  • Rous sarcoma virus-transformed fibroblasts and cells of monocytic origin display a peculiar dot-like organization of cytoskeletal proteins involved in microfilament-membrane interactions

    Pier Carlo Marchisio;Daniela Cirillo;Anna Teti;Alberta Zambonin-Zallone

  • The 2021 WHO catalogue of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex mutations associated with drug resistance: a genotypic analysis

    T Walker;P Miotto;C Koser;P Fowler

  • Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Italy and Germany.

    Giovanni Battista Migliori;Johannes Ortmann;Enrico Girardi;Giorgio Besozzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Battista Migliori
Giovanni Battista Migliori Queen Mary University of London
Stefan Niemann
Stefan Niemann Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Enrico Tortoli
Enrico Tortoli Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Delia Goletti
Delia Goletti Istituto Sperimentale Italiano Lazzaro Spallanzani
Giovanni Sotgiu
Giovanni Sotgiu University of Sassari
Christoph Lange
Christoph Lange University of Lübeck
Derrick W. Crook
Derrick W. Crook University of Oxford
Francis Drobniewski
Francis Drobniewski Imperial College London
Sven Hoffner
Sven Hoffner Karolinska Institute
Leen Rigouts
Leen Rigouts Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

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