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Gunnel Biberfeld

Gunnel Biberfeld

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Overview

Gunnel Biberfeld is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with particular emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Virology, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Biberfeld's work extensively covers topics related to HIV/AIDS research and interventions, HIV research and treatment, as well as HIV, drug use, and sexual risk behaviors. Other topics of interest include global maternal and child health, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches.

Recent scholarly publications by Biberfeld include:

  • Long-term virological outcomes in women who started option B+ care during pregnancy for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a cohort study (2021, The Lancet HIV)
  • Effect of peer-mother interactive programme on prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission outcomes among pregnant women on anti-retroviral treatment in routine healthcare in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2022, PLOS Global Public Health)
  • The Prevalence, Incidence, and Risk Factors for HIV Among Female Sex Workers-A Cohort Being Prepared for a Phase IIb HIV Vaccine Trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2022, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes)
  • Induction of Identical IgG HIV-1 Envelope Epitope Recognition Patterns After Initial HIVIS-DNA/MVA-CMDR Immunization and a Late MVA-CMDR Boost (2020, Frontiers in Immunology)
  • Frequent Anti-V1V2 Responses Induced by HIV-DNA Followed by HIV-MVA with or without CN54rgp140/GLA-AF in Healthy African Volunteers (2020, Microorganisms)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Biberfeld include:

  • Goodluck Lyatuu
  • Roseline Urrio
  • Helga Naburi
  • Ayoub Kibao
  • Charles Kilewo

Biberfeld has contributed multiple works to key scientific venues, with notable publications in:

  • The Lancet HIV
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • PLOS Global Public Health
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Microorganisms

Best Publications

  • REPLICATIVE CAPACITY OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS FROM PATIENTS WITH VARYING SEVERITY OF HIV INFECTION

    Birgitta Åsjö;Jan Albert;Anders Karlsson;Linda Morfeldt-Månson

  • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 through breastfeeding by treating mothers with triple antiretroviral therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: the Mitra Plus study.

    Charles Kilewo;Katarina Karlsson;Matilda Ngarina;Augustine Massawe

  • Prevention of HIV-2 and SIVsm infection by passive immunization in cynomolgus monkeys.

    Per Putkonen;Rigmor Thorstensson;Lili Ghavamzadeh;Jan Albert

  • HIV counseling and testing of pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: experiences from a study on prevention of mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

    Charles Kilewo;Augustine Massawe;Eligius Lyamuya;Innocent Semali

  • Anti-actin specificity of human smooth muscle antibodies in chronic active hepatitis.

    K Lidman;G Biberfeld;A Fagraeus;R Norberg

  • Ultrastructural Features of Mycoplasma pneumoniae

    Gunnel Biberfeld;Peter Biberfeld

  • Characteristics of the specific cell-mediated immune response in human immunodeficiency virus infection.

    B Wahren;L Morfeldt-Månsson;G Biberfeld;L Moberg

  • Plasma Viral Load in HIV-1 and HIV-2 Singly and Dually Infected Individuals in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa: Significantly Lower Plasma Virus Set Point in HIV-2 Infection Than in HIV-1 Infection

    Sören Andersson;Hans Norrgren;Zacarias da Silva;Antonio Biague

  • HTLV-III expression in infected lymph nodes and relevance to pathogenesis of lymphadenopathy.

    P. Biberfeld;K. J. Chayt;L. M. Marselle;G. Biberfeld

  • A new human retrovirus isolate of West African origin (SBL-6669) and its relationship to HTLV-IV, LAV-II, and HTLV-IIIB.

    Jan Albert;Ulla Bredberg;Francesca Chiodi;Blenda Böttiger

  • Diagnosis of primary HIV-1 infection and duration of follow-up after HIV exposure.

    S. Lindbäck;R. Thorstensson;A. C. Karlsson;M. von Sydow

  • Outcome of Immunization of Cynomolgus Monkeys with Recombinant Semliki Forest Virus Encoding Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Envelope Protein and Challenge with a High Dose of SHIV-4 Virus

    Peter Berglund;Marlene Quesada-Rolander;Per Putkonen;Gunnel Biberfeld

  • Broad Immunogenicity of a Multigene, Multiclade HIV-1 DNA Vaccine Boosted with Heterologous HIV-1 Recombinant Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara

    Eric Sandström;Charlotta Nilsson;Bo Hejdeman;Andreas Bråve

  • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 through breast-feeding by treating infants prophylactically with lamivudine in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: the Mitra Study.

    Charles Kilewo;Katarina Karlsson;Augustine Massawe;Eligius Lyamuya

  • Discrimination between antibodies to HIV and to related retroviruses using site-directed serology.

    Erling Norrby;Gunnel Biberfeld;Francesca Chiodi;Agneta von Gegerfeldt

  • Prevalence of HIV-1 infection in the Kagera region of Tanzania: a population-based study.

    Japhet Z. Killewo;K.M. Nyamuryekung'e;Anita Sandstrom;U. Bredberg-Raden

  • Reasons for poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy postnatally in HIV-1 infected women treated for their own health: experiences from the Mitra Plus study in Tanzania

    Matilda Ngarina;Rebecca Popenoe;Rebecca Popenoe;Charles Kilewo;Gunnel Biberfeld

  • Immunological changes in primary HIV-1 infection.

    Hans Gaines;Madeleine A.e. von Sydow;Lars Viktor von Stedingk;Gunnel Biberfeld

  • Oral candida albicans in HIV infection.

    Jan Torssander;Linda Morfeldt-Månson;Gunnel Biberfeld;Anders Karlsson

  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a polyclonal B-cell activator

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  • A prospective study of vertical transmission of HIV-2 in Bissau Guinea-Bissau.

    P.A. Andreasson;Francisco Dias;A. Naucler;Soren Andersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Sandström
Eric Sandström Karolinska Institute
Britta Wahren
Britta Wahren Karolinska Institute
Peter Biberfeld
Peter Biberfeld Karolinska Institute
Jan Albert
Jan Albert Karolinska Institute
Erling Norrby
Erling Norrby Karolinska Institute
Eva Maria Fenyö
Eva Maria Fenyö Lund University
Merlin L. Robb
Merlin L. Robb Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Robert C. Gallo
Robert C. Gallo University of South Florida
Gabriella Scarlatti
Gabriella Scarlatti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Michael Hoelscher
Michael Hoelscher Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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