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Overview

Marco Salemi is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields primarily within medicine, with a strong focus on infectious diseases and molecular biology. Salemi has contributed extensively to the study of viral pathogens and their epidemiology, addressing key challenges related to emerging and re-emerging infections.

The main fields of study for Salemi include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader fields, Salemi's work delves into several subfields:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology
  • Virology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The topics they investigate cover important areas in current global health, including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies

Salemi's recent notable research papers include:

  • "Independent infections of porcine deltacoronavirus among Haitian children," 2021, Nature
  • "The global spread of 2019-nCoV: a molecular evolutionary analysis," 2020, Pathogens and Global Health
  • "Collection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus from the Air of a Clinic within a University Student Health Care Center and Analyses of the Viral Genomic Sequence," 2020, Aerosol and Air Quality Research
  • "A thermostable Cas12b from Brevibacillus leverages one-pot discrimination of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern," 2022, EBioMedicine

The primary venues where Salemi publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
  • Microbiology Spectrum

Collaborations with frequent co-authors demonstrate an extensive network in the infectious disease research community. Key collaborators include:

  • Carla Mavian
  • Simone Marini
  • Mattia Prosperi
  • Brittany Rife Magalis
  • Melanie N. Cash

Best Publications

  • An index of substitution saturation and its application.

    Xuhua Xia;Zheng Xie;Marco Salemi;Lu Chen

  • Vitamins and Hormones

    Robert S. et.al Harris;Philippe Lemey;Marco Salemi;Anne-Mieke Vandamme

  • Tracing the origin and history of the HIV-2 epidemic.

    Philippe Lemey;Oliver G. Pybus;Bin Wang;Nitin K. Saksena

  • The Phylogenetic Handbook: A Practical Approach to Phylogenetic Analysis and Hypothesis Testing

    Philippe Lemey;Marco Salemi;Anne-Mieke Vandamme

  • Independent infections of porcine deltacoronavirus among Haitian children.

    John A. Lednicky;Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte;Sarah K. White;Maha A. Elbadry

  • Ancient co-speciation of simian foamy viruses and primates.

    William M. Switzer;Marco Salemi;Vedapuri Shanmugam;Feng Gao

  • Structure of the HIV-1 RNA packaging signal

    Sarah C. Keane;Xiao Heng;Kun Lu;Siarhei Kharytonchyk

  • the Phylogenetic Handbook : A Practical Approach to DNA and protein phylogeny

    Marco Salemi;Anne-Mieke Vandamme

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

    Domenico Benvenuto;Marta Giovanetti;Marco Salemi;Mattia Prosperi

  • Dating the common ancestor of SIVcpz and HIV-1 group M and the origin of HIV-1 subtypes by using a new method to uncover clock-like molecular evolution

    Marco Salemi;Korbinian Strimmer;William W. Hall;Margaret Duffy

  • QuRe: software for viral quasispecies reconstruction from next-generation sequencing data.

    Mattia C. F. Prosperi;Marco Salemi

  • Dating the Origin of the African Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type-I (HTLV-I) Subtypes

    S. Van Dooren;M. Salemi;A.-M. Vandamme

  • Characterization of a Novel Simian Immunodeficiency Virus with a vpu Gene from Greater Spot-Nosed Monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans) Provides New Insights into Simian/Human Immunodeficiency Virus Phylogeny

    Valérie Courgnaud;Marco Salemi;Xavier Pourrut;Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole

  • U.S. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Epidemic: Date of Origin, Population History, and Characterization of Early Strains

    Kenneth E. Robbins;Philippe Lemey;Oliver G. Pybus;Harold W. Jaffe

  • HIV DNA Is Frequently Present within Pathologic Tissues Evaluated at Autopsy from Combined Antiretroviral Therapy-Treated Patients with Undetectable Viral Loads

    Susanna L. Lamers;Rebecca Rose;Ekaterina Maidji;Melissa Agsalda-Garcia

  • The mode and tempo of hepatitis C virus evolution within and among hosts

    Rebecca R Gray;Joe Parker;Philippe Lemey;Marco Salemi

  • Mayaro Virus in Child with Acute Febrile Illness, Haiti, 2015.

    John Lednicky;Valery Madsen Beau De Rochars;Maha Elbadry;Julia Loeb

  • A novel methodology for large-scale phylogeny partition

    Mattia C.F. Prosperi;Massimo Ciccozzi;Iuri Fanti;Francesco Saladini

  • Molecular epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak

    Tulio de Oliveira;Oliver G. Pybus;Andrew Rambaut;Marco Salemi

  • Zika Virus Outbreak in Haiti in 2014: Molecular and Clinical Data.

    John Lednicky;Valery Madsen Beau De Rochars;Maha El Badry;Julia Loeb

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Anne-Mieke Vandamme Rega Institute for Medical Research
Massimo Ciccozzi
Massimo Ciccozzi Università Campus Bio-Medico
J. Glenn Morris
J. Glenn Morris University of Florida
John A. Lednicky
John A. Lednicky University of Florida
Michael S. McGrath
Michael S. McGrath University of California, San Francisco
Kenneth C. Williams
Kenneth C. Williams The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Oliver G. Pybus
Oliver G. Pybus University of Oxford
Tulio de Oliveira
Tulio de Oliveira University of KwaZulu-Natal
Judith A. Johnson
Judith A. Johnson University of Florida

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