Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara

Best Publications

• Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa.

  Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Marta Giovanetti;Marta Giovanetti;Arash Iranzadeh

  1635
  Citations

• Multiplex PCR method for MinION and Illumina sequencing of Zika and other virus genomes directly from clinical samples

  Joshua Quick;Nathan D Grubaugh;Steven T Pullan;Ingra M Claro

  1284
  Citations

• Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings

  Nuno Rodrigues Faria;Nuno Rodrigues Faria;Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Renato Souza

  1247
  Citations

• Emergence and rapid spread of a new severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineage with multiple spike mutations in South Africa

  Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Marta Giovanetti;Marta Giovanetti;Arash Iranzadeh

  1043
  Citations

• Establishment and cryptic transmission of Zika virus in Brazil and the Americas

  N R Faria;Joshua Quick;I M Claro;J Thézé

  693
  Citations

• Genome Detective: an automated system for virus identification from high-throughput sequencing data.

  Michael Vilsker;Yumna Moosa;Sam Nooij;Vagner Fonseca;Vagner Fonseca;Vagner Fonseca

  414
  Citations

• Genomic and epidemiological monitoring of yellow fever virus transmission potential

  N. R. Faria;M. U. G. Kraemer;M. U. G. Kraemer;M. U. G. Kraemer;S. C. Hill;J. Goes de Jesus

  359
  Citations

• Sixteen novel lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa.

  Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Richard J. Lessells;Jennifer Giandhari

  355
  Citations

• HTLV-I in the general population of Salvador, Brazil: a city with African ethnic and sociodemographic characteristics.

  Inês Dourado;Luiz C J Alcantara;Maurício L Barreto;Maria da Gloria Teixeira

  330
  Citations

• Mobile real-time surveillance of Zika virus in Brazil

  Nuno Rodrigues Faria;Ester C Sabino;Marcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes;Marcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes;Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara

  244
  Citations

• HTLV‐1 decreases Th2 type of immune response in patients with strongyloidiasis

  Aurélia F. Porto;Franklin A. Neva;Helito Bittencourt;Waldir Lisboa

  216
  Citations

• The global spread of 2019-nCoV: a molecular evolutionary analysis.

  Domenico Benvenuto;Marta Giovanetti;Marco Salemi;Mattia Prosperi

  205
  Citations

• A standardized framework for accurate, high-throughput genotyping of recombinant and non-recombinant viral sequences

  Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara;Sharon Cassol;Pieter Libin;Koen Deforche

  187
  Citations

• Genome Detective Coronavirus Typing Tool for rapid identification and characterization of novel coronavirus genomes.

  Sara Cleemput;Wim Dumon;Vagner Fonseca;Vagner Fonseca;Wasim Abdool Karim

  183
  Citations

• Impaired T helper 2 response to aeroallergen in helminth-infected patients with asthma.

  Maria Ilma A. S. Araujo;Bradford Hoppe;Manoel Medeiros;Leda Alcântara

  166
  Citations

• HTLV in the Americas: challenges and perspectives

  Anna Bárbara F Carneiro-Proietti;Bernadette C Catalan-Soares;Carlos M Castro-Costa;Edward L Murphy

  154
  Citations

• Epidemiology of Chikungunya Virus in Bahia, Brazil, 2014-2015

  Nuno Rodrigues Faria;José Lourenço;Erenilde Marques de Cerqueira;Maricélia Maia de Lima

  142
  Citations

• Emergence of Congenital Zika Syndrome: Viewpoint From the Front Lines.

  Federico Costa;Manoel Sarno;Ricardo Khouri;Bruno de Paula Freitas

  130
  Citations

• Early transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa: An epidemiological and phylogenetic report.

  Jennifer Giandhari;Sureshnee Pillay;Eduan Wilkinson;Houriiyah Tegally

  119
  Citations

• Yellow Fever Virus Reemergence and Spread in Southeast Brazil, 2016-2019.

  Marta Giovanetti;Marta Giovanetti;Marcos Cesar Lima de Mendonça;Vagner Fonseca;Vagner Fonseca;Maria Angélica Mares-Guia

  110
  Citations