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Luiza Guilherme is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their work spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, and Physiology.

The research topics covered by Luiza Guilherme include:

  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Inflammasome and immune disorders
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Complement system in diseases
  • Blood groups and transfusion

Recent papers associated with their research include:

  • Ficolin-3 in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, 2020, Immunology Letters
  • StreptInCor, a Group A Streptococcal Adsorbed Vaccine: Evaluation of Repeated Intramuscular Dose Toxicity Testing in Rats, 2021, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Rheumatic Fever: A Model of Autoimmune Disease due to Molecular Mimicry between Human and Pathogen Proteins, 2020, Critical Reviews in Immunology
  • Diagnosis, physiological mechanisms, risk factors, treatment and prevention of obesity: A brief commentary, 2024, Obesity Medicine
  • Editorial: Rheumatic fever: 21st century clinical and experimental insights, 2023, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

The frequent coauthors of Luiza Guilherme are Jorge Kalil, Andrew C. Steer, Roney Orismar Sampaio, Madeleine W. Cunningham, and Léa Maria Macruz Ferreira Demarchi.

The venues where they have often published include Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Immunology Letters, Critical Reviews in Immunology, Obesity Medicine, and Diagnostics.

Best Publications

  • Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

    Jonathan R. Carapetis;Jonathan R. Carapetis;Andrea Beaton;Madeleine W. Cunningham;Luiza Guilherme;Luiza Guilherme

  • The epidemiology of sepsis in Brazilian intensive care units (the Sepsis PREvalence Assessment Database, SPREAD): an observational study

    Flavia R Machado;Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti;Fernando Augusto Bozza;Elaine M Ferreira

  • Autoimmunity in Chagas' disease. Identification of cardiac myosin-B13 Trypanosoma cruzi protein crossreactive T cell clones in heart lesions of a chronic Chagas' cardiomyopathy patient.

    E Cunha-Neto;V Coelho;L Guilherme;A Fiorelli

  • Human heart-infiltrating T-cell clones from rheumatic heart disease patients recognize both streptococcal and cardiac proteins.

    L. Guilherme;E. Cunha-Neto;V. Coelho;R. Snitcowsky

  • Molecular mimicry in the autoimmune pathogenesis of rheumatic heart disease.

    Luiza Guilherme;Jorge Kalil;Madeleine Cunningham

  • Rheumatic heart disease: proinflammatory cytokines play a role in the progression and maintenance of valvular lesions.

    Luiza Guilherme;Patricia Cury;Lea M.F. Demarchi;Verônica Coelho

  • Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: Cellular Mechanisms Leading Autoimmune Reactivity and Disease

    Luiza Guilherme;Jorge Kalil;Jorge Kalil

  • Mimicry in Recognition of Cardiac Myosin Peptides by Heart-Intralesional T Cell Clones from Rheumatic Heart Disease

    Kellen C. Faé;Kellen C. Faé;Danielle Diefenbach da Silva;Sandra E. Oshiro;Sandra E. Oshiro;Ana C. Tanaka

  • Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: genetics and pathogenesis.

    L. Guilherme;R. Ramasawmy;J. Kalil

  • Association of human leukocyte class II antigens with rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease in a Brazilian population.

    L Guilherme;W Weidebach;M H Kiss;R Snitcowsky

  • Status of research and development of vaccines for Streptococcus pyogenes

    Andrew C Steer;Jonathan R Carapetis;James B Dale;John D Fraser

  • T-Cell Reactivity against Streptococcal Antigens in the Periphery Mirrors Reactivity of Heart-Infiltrating T Lymphocytes in Rheumatic Heart Disease Patients

    Luiza Guilherme;Sandra E. Oshiro;Kellen C. Fae;Edécio Cunha-Neto

  • Immunological Balance Is Associated with Clinical Outcome after Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Type 1 Diabetes.

    Kelen C. R. Malmegrim;Júlia T. C. de Azevedo;Lucas C. M. Arruda;Joana R. F. Abreu

  • Molecular pathogenesis of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.

    Luiza Guilherme;Kellen Faé;Sandra E. Oshiro;Jorge Kalil

  • Genes, autoimmunity and pathogenesis of rheumatic heart disease

    L Guilherme;KF Köhler;E Postol;J Kalil

  • Association of polymorphisms within the promoter region of the tumor necrosis factor-α with clinical outcomes of rheumatic fever

    Rajendranath Ramasawmy;Kellen C. Faé;Kellen C. Faé;Guilherme Spina;Gabriel D. Victora;Gabriel D. Victora

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders and Rheumatic Fever: A Family Study

    Ana Gabriela Hounie;David L. Pauls;Maria Conceição do Rosario-Campos;Marcos Tomanik Mercadante

  • Cytokine production profile of heart-infiltrating T cells in Chagas' disease cardiomyopathy.

    E. Cunha-Neto;L.V. Rizzo;F. Albuquerque;L. Abel

  • Towards a vaccine against rheumatic fever.

    L Guilherme;L Guilherme;K C Faé;K C Faé;F Higa;F Higa;L Chaves;L Chaves

  • PDIA3, HSPA5 and vimentin, proteins identified by 2-DE in the valvular tissue, are the target antigens of peripheral and heart infiltrating T cells from chronic rheumatic heart disease patients.

    Kellen C. Faé;Danielle Diefenbach da Silva;Angelina M.B. Bilate;Ana C. Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge Kalil
Jorge Kalil Universidade de São Paulo
Edecio Cunha-Neto
Edecio Cunha-Neto Universidade de São Paulo
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Universidade de São Paulo
Antoine Toubert
Antoine Toubert Université Paris Cité
Madeleine W. Cunningham
Madeleine W. Cunningham University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Dominique Charron
Dominique Charron Grenoble Alpes University
Manuel E. Patarroyo
Manuel E. Patarroyo National University of Colombia
Bart O. Roep
Bart O. Roep Leiden University Medical Center
Alessandro Sette
Alessandro Sette La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Eduardo Caruso Machado
Eduardo Caruso Machado Instituto Agronômico de Campinas

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