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Daniele Lilleri

Daniele Lilleri

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Immunology

D-Index
52
Citations
8329
World Ranking
4086
National Ranking
172

Overview

Daniele Lilleri is affiliated with the University of Pavia in Italy and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly in the field of infectious diseases. Their work spans multiple subfields including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Immunology, and Neurology.

Their research output includes a notable focus on viral infections and immunological responses. Key topics covered in Lilleri's publications are:

  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • COVID-19 clinical research studies
  • Herpesvirus infections and treatments
  • Parvovirus B19 infection studies
  • Long-term effects of COVID-19
  • Vaccine coverage and hesitancy

Among Lilleri's recent papers are:

  • Consensus recommendation for prenatal, neonatal and postnatal management of congenital cytomegalovirus infection from the European congenital infection initiative (ECCI), 2024, published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Broncho-alveolar inflammation in COVID-19 patients: a correlation with clinical outcome, 2020, published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine
  • Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Induce the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition: Implications in Post-COVID-19 Fibrosis, 2021, published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • Maternal type of CMV infection and sequelae in infants with congenital CMV: Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, published in Journal of Clinical Virology
  • Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs underlie West Nile virus encephalitis in ∼40% of patients, 2023, published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Lilleri collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Fausto Baldanti
  • Irene Cassaniti
  • Federica Zavaglio
  • Josè Camilla Sammartino
  • Elena Percivalle

Their research has been published extensively in journals such as Viruses, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Immunology, Vaccines, and Journal of Medical Virology.

Best Publications

  • Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs are present in ~ 4% of uninfected individuals over 70 years old and account for ~ 20% of COVID-19 deaths.

    Paul Bastard;Adrian Gervais;Adrian Gervais;Tom Le Voyer;Tom Le Voyer;Jérémie Rosain;Jérémie Rosain

  • Diagnosis and outcome of preconceptional and periconceptional primary human cytomegalovirus infections.

    Maria Grazia Revello;Maurizio Zavattoni;Milena Furione;Daniele Lilleri

  • Dendritic-cell infection by human cytomegalovirus is restricted to strains carrying functional UL131-128 genes and mediates efficient viral antigen presentation to CD8+ T cells.

    Giuseppe Gerna;Elena Percivalle;Daniele Lilleri;Laura Lozza

  • Human Cytomegalovirus Replicates Abortively in Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes after Transfer from Infected Endothelial Cells via Transient Microfusion Events

    Giuseppe Gerna;Elena Percivalle;Fausto Baldanti;Silvano Sozzani

  • Platelet-derived growth factor-α receptor is the cellular receptor for human cytomegalovirus gHgLgO trimer.

    Anna Kabanova;Jessica Marcandalli;Tongqing Zhou;Siro Bianchi

  • Monitoring of Human Cytomegalovirus‐Specific CD4+ and CD8+ T‐Cell Immunity in Patients Receiving Solid Organ Transplantation

    G. Gerna;D. Lilleri;C. Fornara;G. Comolli

  • 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

  • New advances in CMV and immunosenescence.

    Paolo Sansoni;Rosanna Vescovini;Francesco F. Fagnoni;Arne Akbar

  • 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

  • Role of prenatal diagnosis and counseling in the management of 735 pregnancies complicated by primary human cytomegalovirus infection: A 20-year experience

    Maria Grazia Revello;Elisa Fabbri;Milena Furione;Maurizio Zavattoni

  • Human cytomegalovirus proteins pp65 and immediate early protein 1 are common targets for CD8+ T cell responses in children with congenital or postnatal human cytomegalovirus infection.

    Laura L. Gibson;Giampiero Piccinini;Daniele Lilleri;Maria Grazia Revello

  • Impact of human metapneumovirus and human cytomegalovirus versus other respiratory viruses on the lower respiratory tract infections of lung transplant recipients.

    Giuseppe Gerna;Patrizio Vitulo;Francesca Rovida;Daniele Lilleri

  • Human cytomegalovirus-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell reconstitution in adult allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients and immune control of viral infection

    Daniele Lilleri;Chiara Fornara;Antonella Chiesa;Daniela Caldera

  • Prospective simultaneous quantification of human cytomegalovirus-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell reconstitution in young recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants

    Daniele Lilleri;Giuseppe Gerna;Chiara Fornara;Laura Lozza

  • Development of Human Cytomegalovirus—Specific T Cell Immunity during Primary Infection of Pregnant Women and Its Correlation with Virus Transmission to the Fetus

    Daniele Lilleri;Chiara Fornara;Milena Furione;Maurizio Zavattoni

  • Antibody-driven design of a human cytomegalovirus gHgLpUL128L subunit vaccine that selectively elicits potent neutralizing antibodies.

    Anna Kabanova;Laurent Perez;Daniele Lilleri;Jessica Marcandalli

  • Monitoring human cytomegalovirus infection in transplant recipients

    Fausto Baldanti;Daniele Lilleri;Giuseppe Gerna

  • Virologic and immunologic monitoring of cytomegalovirus to guide preemptive therapy in solid-organ transplantation.

    G. Gerna;D. Lilleri;A. Chiesa;P. Zelini

  • Human cytomegalovirus-specific memory CD8+ and CD4+ T cell differentiation after primary infection.

    Daniele Lilleri;Chiara Fornara;Maria Grazia Revello;Giuseppe Gerna

  • Prognostic markers of symptomatic congenital human cytomegalovirus infection in fetal blood

    E Fabbri;MG Revello;M Furione;M Zavattoni

  • Antibodies Against Neutralization Epitopes of Human Cytomegalovirus gH/gL/pUL128-130-131 Complex and Virus Spreading May Correlate with Virus Control In Vivo

    Daniele Lilleri;Anna Kabanova;Antonio Lanzavecchia;Giuseppe Gerna

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Gerna
Giuseppe Gerna University of Pavia
Fausto Baldanti
Fausto Baldanti University of Pavia
Maria Grazia Revello
Maria Grazia Revello University of Milan
Elena Percivalle
Elena Percivalle University of Pavia
Antonella Sarasini
Antonella Sarasini University of Pavia
Antonio Lanzavecchia
Antonio Lanzavecchia Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare
Marco Zecca
Marco Zecca University of Pavia
Eloisa Arbustini
Eloisa Arbustini Policlinico San Matteo Fondazione
Jaap M. Middeldorp
Jaap M. Middeldorp VU University Medical Center

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