Maria Moriondo

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1 Community‐acquired bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia in children: diagnosis and serotyping by real‐time polymerase chain reaction using blood samples. Clin Infect Dis 2010 2.22
2 Interferon-gamma release assay improves the diagnosis of tuberculosis in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2009 2.03
3 Molecular detection methods and serotyping performed directly on clinical samples improve diagnostic sensitivity and reveal increased incidence of invasive disease by Streptococcus pneumoniae in Italian children. J Med Microbiol 2008 1.71
4 Maternal drug use is a preeminent risk factor for mother-to-child hepatitis C virus transmission: results from a multicenter study of 1372 mother-infant pairs. J Infect Dis 2002 1.68
5 Realtime PCR is more sensitive than multiplex PCR for diagnosis and serotyping in children with culture negative pneumococcal invasive disease. PLoS One 2010 1.59
6 Chronic hepatitis B in children after e antigen seroclearance: final report of a 29-year longitudinal study. Hepatology 2006 1.27
7 Comparison of the effect of antibiotic treatment on the possibility of diagnosing invasive pneumococcal disease by culture or molecular methods: a prospective, observational study of children and adolescents with proven pneumococcal infection. Clin Ther 2009 1.03
8 Viraemia is a common finding in immunocompetent children with rotavirus infection. J Med Virol 2005 0.99
9 Pneumococcal DNA is not detectable in the blood of healthy carrier children by real-time PCR targeting the lytA gene. J Med Microbiol 2011 0.97
10 Genetic variation in interleukin-28B locus is associated with spontaneous clearance of HCV in children with non-1 viral genotype infection. Hepatology 2011 0.91
11 Higher risk of hepatitis C virus perinatal transmission from drug user mothers is mediated by peripheral blood mononuclear cell infection. J Med Virol 2008 0.90
12 Alanine transaminase levels in the year before pregnancy predict the risk of hepatitis C virus vertical transmission. J Med Virol 2006 0.87
13 Potential serotype coverage of three pneumococcal conjugate vaccines against invasive pneumococcal infection in Italian children. Vaccine 2011 0.87
14 Tandem mass spectrometry, but not T-cell receptor excision circle analysis, identifies newborns with late-onset adenosine deaminase deficiency. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2012 0.83
15 Analytic investigations on protein content in refined seed oils: implications in food allergy. Food Chem Toxicol 2008 0.82
16 Th17 transcription factor RORC2 is inversely correlated with FOXP3 expression in the joints of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. J Rheumatol 2009 0.80
17 Underestimation of Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Italy. Emerg Infect Dis 2016 0.79
18 Association between mannose-binding lectin gene polymorphisms and necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2012 0.78
19 Injection drug use facilitates hepatitis C virus infection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Clin Infect Dis 2002 0.78
20 Intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C virus: infection of the father predicts the risk of perinatal transmission. J Med Virol 2008 0.77
21 Safety and immunogenicity of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine in children with congenital immunodeficiency (DiGeorge syndrome). Vaccine 2005 0.75
22 VP7 and VP4 sequence analyses of rotavirus strains from Italian children with viraemia and acute diarrhoea. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2010 0.75
23 Mother-to-infant transmission of multiple blood-borne viral infections from multi-infected mothers. J Med Virol 2007 0.75
24 Nasal Swab as Preferred Clinical Specimen for COVID-19 Testing in Children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2020 0.75