Fausto Baldanti

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1 Human cytomegalovirus UL131-128 genes are indispensable for virus growth in endothelial cells and virus transfer to leukocytes. J Virol 2004 3.42
2 Dendritic-cell infection by human cytomegalovirus is restricted to strains carrying functional UL131-128 genes and mediates efficient viral antigen presentation to CD8+ T cells. J Gen Virol 2005 1.83
3 The human cytomegalovirus ribonucleotide reductase homolog UL45 is dispensable for growth in endothelial cells, as determined by a BAC-cloned clinical isolate of human cytomegalovirus with preserved wild-type characteristics. J Virol 2002 1.82
4 Postinfectious neurologic syndromes: a prospective cohort study. Neurology 2013 1.73
5 Cross-neutralization of four paramyxoviruses by a human monoclonal antibody. Nature 2013 1.73
6 Use of a DNAemia cut-off for monitoring human cytomegalovirus infection reduces the number of preemptively treated children and young adults receiving hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation compared with qualitative pp65 antigenemia. Blood 2007 1.61
7 Rising antigenemia levels may be misleading in pre-emptive therapy of human cytomegalovirus infection in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. Haematologica 2005 1.51
8 Infusion of autologous Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-specific cytotoxic T cells for prevention of EBV-related lymphoproliferative disorder in solid organ transplant recipients with evidence of active virus replication. Blood 2002 1.50
9 Phylogenetic patterns of human respiratory picornavirus species, including the newly identified group C rhinoviruses, during a 1-year surveillance of a hospitalized patient population in Italy. J Clin Microbiol 2010 1.49
10 Pathogenesis of human cytomegalovirus infection and cellular targets. Hum Immunol 2004 1.48
11 Human cytomegalovirus serum neutralizing antibodies block virus infection of endothelial/epithelial cells, but not fibroblasts, early during primary infection. J Gen Virol 2008 1.45
12 Enterovirus genotype EV-104 in humans, Italy, 2008-2009. Emerg Infect Dis 2010 1.25
13 Human respiratory coronavirus HKU1 versus other coronavirus infections in Italian hospitalised patients. J Clin Virol 2007 1.24
14 Genetic variability of human coronavirus OC43-, 229E-, and NL63-like strains and their association with lower respiratory tract infections of hospitalized infants and immunocompromised patients. J Med Virol 2006 1.23
15 Phylogenetic characterization of enterovirus 68 strains in patients with respiratory syndromes in Italy. J Med Virol 2013 1.23
16 Rescue of human cytomegalovirus strain AD169 tropism for both leukocytes and human endothelial cells. J Gen Virol 2003 1.20
17 HIV-1-specific T cell precursors with high proliferative capacity correlate with low viremia and high CD4 counts in untreated individuals. J Immunol 2008 1.19
18 Human rhinovirus and human respiratory enterovirus (EV68 and EV104) infections in hospitalized patients in Italy, 2008-2009. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2012 1.16
19 Naturally occurring mutations to HCV protease inhibitors in treatment-naïve patients. Virol J 2012 1.16
20 Monoclonal antibodies versus reverse transcription-PCR for detection of respiratory viruses in a patient population with respiratory tract infections admitted to hospital. J Med Virol 2005 1.15
21 Performance of genotypic tropism testing on proviral DNA in clinical practice: results from the DIVA study group. New Microbiol 2012 1.10
22 Kinetics of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) DNAemia in transplanted patients expressed in international units as determined with the Abbott RealTime CMV assay and an in-house assay. J Clin Virol 2012 1.09
23 Detection and pathogenicity of human metapneumovirus respiratory infection in pediatric Italian patients during a winter--spring season. J Clin Virol 2005 1.08
24 Impact of human metapneumovirus and human cytomegalovirus versus other respiratory viruses on the lower respiratory tract infections of lung transplant recipients. J Med Virol 2006 1.07
25 Performance of genotypic tropism testing in clinical practice using the enhanced sensitivity version of Trofile as reference assay: results from the OSCAR Study Group. New Microbiol 2010 1.06
26 Lack of transmission to polymorphonuclear leukocytes and human umbilical vein endothelial cells as a marker of attenuation of human cytomegalovirus. J Med Virol 2002 1.06
27 Segregation of virulent influenza A(H1N1) variants in the lower respiratory tract of critically ill patients during the 2010-2011 seasonal epidemic. PLoS One 2011 1.04
28 The human cytomegalovirus UL45 gene product is a late, virion-associated protein and influences virus growth at low multiplicities of infection. J Gen Virol 2003 1.04
29 Genotypic/phenotypic patterns of HIV-1 integrase resistance to raltegravir. J Antimicrob Chemother 2010 1.04
30 Viremic Dengue virus infections in travellers: potential for local outbreak in Northern Italy. J Clin Virol 2010 1.03
31 Complete genome sequence of a novel human enterovirus C (HEV-C117) identified in a child with community-acquired pneumonia. J Virol 2012 1.01
32 Rules-based HIV-1 genotypic resistance interpretation systems predict 8 week and 24 week virological antiretroviral treatment outcome and benefit from drug potency weighting. J Antimicrob Chemother 2009 1.01
33 Prospective study of human metapneumovirus infection: diagnosis, typing and virus quantification in nasopharyngeal secretions from pediatric patients. J Clin Virol 2007 0.99
34 Serum antibody response to the gH/gL/pUL128-131 five-protein complex of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in primary and reactivated HCMV infections. J Clin Virol 2011 0.99
35 Human parechovirus infections in patients admitted to hospital in Northern Italy, 2008-2010. J Med Virol 2012 0.99
36 Management of human cytomegalovirus infection in transplantation: validation of virologic cut-offs for preemptive therapy and immunological cut-offs for protection. New Microbiol 2011 0.98
37 Discovery of the first small molecule inhibitor of human DDX3 specifically designed to target the RNA binding site: towards the next generation HIV-1 inhibitors. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2012 0.98
38 The attenuated Towne strain of human cytomegalovirus may revert to both endothelial cell tropism and leuko- (neutrophil- and monocyte-) tropism in vitro. J Gen Virol 2002 0.96
39 Detection of a new HIV-1 reverse transcriptase mutation (Q145M) conferring resistance to nucleoside and non-nucleoside inhibitors in a patient failing highly active antiretroviral therapy. AIDS 2003 0.96
40 Gln145Met/Leu changes in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase confer resistance to nucleoside and nonnucleoside analogs and impair virus replication. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2004 0.94
41 Multicenter comparative study of Epstein-Barr virus DNA quantification for virological monitoring in transplanted patients. J Clin Virol 2010 0.93
42 Treatment of EBV-related post-renal transplant lymphoproliferative disease with a tailored regimen including EBV-specific T cells. Am J Transplant 2005 0.93
43 Nevirapine resistance mutation at codon 181 of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase confers stavudine resistance by increasing nucleotide substrate discrimination and phosphorolytic activity. J Biol Chem 2003 0.92
44 First case in Italy of acquired resistance to oseltamivir in an immunocompromised patient with influenza A/H1N1v infection. J Clin Virol 2010 0.92
45 Processivity and drug-dependence of HIV-1 protease: determinants of viral fitness in variants resistant to protease inhibitors. AIDS 2003 0.92
46 Clinically-based determination of safe DNAemia cutoff levels for preemptive therapy or human cytomegalovirus infections in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. J Med Virol 2004 0.92
47 Human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) RNA quantification in nasopharyngeal secretions identifies the hRSV etiologic role in acute respiratory tract infections of hospitalized infants. J Clin Virol 2007 0.90
48 Enumeration and characterization of human memory T cells by enzyme-linked immunospot assays. Clin Dev Immunol 2013 0.90
49 Virtual quantification of influenza A virus load by real-time RT-PCR. J Clin Virol 2012 0.89
50 Cytomegalovirus-related complications in human hand transplantation. Transplantation 2005 0.89
51 Toward the discovery of novel anti-HIV drugs. Second-generation inhibitors of the cellular ATPase DDX3 with improved anti-HIV activity: synthesis, structure-activity relationship analysis, cytotoxicity studies, and target validation. ChemMedChem 2011 0.89
52 Viral shedding in children infected by pandemic A/H1N1/2009 influenza virus. Virol J 2011 0.88
53 Human cytomegalovirus immediate-early mRNAemia versus pp65 antigenemia for guiding pre-emptive therapy in children and young adults undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a prospective, randomized, open-label trial. Blood 2003 0.88
54 Novel human enterovirus C infection in child with community-acquired Pneumonia. Emerg Infect Dis 2012 0.87
55 Detection of Epstein-Barr virus-specific memory CD4+ T cells using a peptide-based cultured enzyme-linked immunospot assay. Immunology 2013 0.86
56 Reconstruction of the evolutionary dynamics of the A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza virus in Italy during the pandemic and post-pandemic phases. PLoS One 2012 0.86
57 Emerging viral infections in neonatal intensive care unit. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2011 0.85
58 Interpretation of genotypic HIV-1 resistance to darunavir and virological response: validation of available systems and of a new score. Antivir Ther 2011 0.84
59 Screening and Management of HIV-2-Infected Individuals in Northern Italy. AIDS Patient Care STDS 2008 0.84
60 Molecular detection of gastrointestinal viral infections in hospitalized patients. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2013 0.84
61 Swine Influenza A(H3N2) Virus Infection in Immunocompromised Man, Italy, 2014. Emerg Infect Dis 2015 0.83
62 In vitro model for the study of the dissociation of increasing antigenemia and decreasing DNAemia and viremia during treatment of human cytomegalovirus infection with ganciclovir in transplant recipients. J Infect Dis 2003 0.83
63 Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders: improved outcome after clinico-pathologically tailored treatment. Haematologica 2002 0.82
64 Comparison of levels of HIV-1 resistance to protease inhibitors by recombinant versus conventional virus phenotypic assay and two genotypic interpretation procedures in treatment-naive and HAART-experienced HIV-infected patients. J Antimicrob Chemother 2003 0.82
65 Imported hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in an Italian traveller returning from Cuba. New Microbiol 2013 0.82
66 Evaluation of cytomegalovirus DNAaemia versus pp65-antigenaemia cutoff for guiding preemptive therapy in transplant recipients: a randomized study. Antivir Ther 2007 0.82
67 A novel human enterovirus C (EV-C118) identified in two children hospitalised because of acute otitis media and community-acquired pneumonia in Israel. J Clin Virol 2012 0.82
68 Monitoring for cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus infection in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients receiving i.v. fludarabine-cyclophosphamide combination and alemtuzumab as consolidation therapy. Haematologica 2008 0.82
69 HIV-1 plasma variants encoding truncated reverse transcriptase (RT) in a patient with high RT-specific CD8+ memory T-cell response. Curr HIV Res 2009 0.81
70 Multiple relapses of human cytomegalovirus retinitis during HAART in an AIDS patient with reconstitution of CD4+ T cell count in the absence of HCMV-specific CD4+ T cell response. J Clin Virol 2003 0.81
71 Kinetics of T-lymphocyte subsets and posttransplant opportunistic infections in heart and kidney transplant recipients. Transplantation 2012 0.81
72 Viral outbreaks in neonatal intensive care units: what we do not know. Am J Infect Control 2013 0.81
73 Antibody response of healthy children to pandemic A/H1N1/2009 influenza virus. Virol J 2011 0.81
74 Amino acid insertions at position 35 of HIV-1 protease interfere with virus replication without modifying antiviral drug susceptibility. Antiviral Res 2006 0.80
75 Human cytomegalovirus pp67 mRNAemia versus pp65 antigenemia for guiding preemptive therapy in heart and lung transplant recipients: a prospective, randomized, controlled, open-label trial. Transplantation 2003 0.80
76 Genetic divergence of influenza A NS1 gene in pandemic 2009 H1N1 isolates with respect to H1N1 and H3N2 isolates from previous seasonal epidemics. Virol J 2010 0.80
77 HIV integrase variability and genetic barrier in antiretroviral naïve and experienced patients. Virol J 2011 0.80
78 Successful medical treatment of EBV smooth muscle tumor in a renal transplant recipient. Pediatr Transplant 2010 0.79
79 Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation may restore gluten tolerance in patients with celiac disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2013 0.79
80 Multicenter quality control study for human cytomegalovirus DNAemia quantification. New Microbiol 2009 0.79
81 Novel recombinant phenotypic assay for clonal analysis of reverse transcriptase mutations conferring drug resistance to HIV-1 variants. J Antimicrob Chemother 2004 0.79
82 Xenotropic and polytropic murine leukemia virus-related sequences are not detected in the majority of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. New Microbiol 2012 0.79
83 Rapid typing, subtyping and RNA quantification of influenza virus type A strains in respiratory secretions. New Microbiol 2008 0.79
84 The PDZ-ligand and Src-homology type 3 domains of epidemic avian influenza virus NS1 protein modulate human Src kinase activity during viral infection. PLoS One 2011 0.79
85 Comparison of immunologic and molecular assays for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal viral infections. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2012 0.79
86 Colitis in an elderly immunocompetent patient. J Clin Virol 2012 0.79
87 Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with the D222E variant of the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus: case report and review of the literature. J Neurol Sci 2011 0.78
88 Genome characterisation of enteroviruses 117 and 118: a new group within human enterovirus species C. PLoS One 2013 0.78
89 Full Genome Sequence of a Novel Human Enterovirus C (EV-C118) Isolated from Two Children with Acute Otitis Media and Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Israel. Genome Announc 2013 0.78
90 Accumulation of defective HIV-1 variants in a patient with slow disease progression. Curr HIV Res 2011 0.78
91 Maternal, fetal, and neonatal parameters for prognosis and counseling of HCMV congenital infection. J Med Virol 2014 0.78
92 Adoptive Transfer of Herpesvirusspecific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes in Transplant Recipients. Herpes 2000 0.77
93 Multiple ganciclovir-resistant strains in a newborn with symptomatic congenital human cytomegalovirus infection. J Clin Virol 2012 0.77
94 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) load and interleukin-10 in EBV-positive and EBV-negative post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders. Br J Haematol 2003 0.77
95 NNRTI-selected mutations at codon 190 of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase decrease susceptibility to stavudine and zidovudine. Antiviral Res 2007 0.77
96 Neurological Complications Involving the Central Nervous System After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation During a Period of Evolution in Transplant Modalities: A Cohort Analysis. Transplantation 2017 0.77
97 Surveillance of influenza virus B circulation in Northern Italy: summer-fall 2008 isolation of three strains and phylogenetic analysis. New Microbiol 2009 0.77
98 Complete genome characterization of enterovirus 104 circulating in Northern Italy shows recombinant origin of the P3 region. Infect Genet Evol 2013 0.76
99 Dissociation of serum and liver hepatitis C virus RNA levels in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus and treated with antiretroviral drugs. J Clin Microbiol 2004 0.76
100 Autologous human cytomegalovirus-specific cytotoxic T cells as rescue therapy for ulcerative enteritis in primary immunodeficiency. J Clin Immunol 2014 0.76
101 Comparison of three different methods for the evaluation of IL28 and ITPA polymorphisms in patients infected with HCV. J Virol Methods 2012 0.76
102 Miscarriage following dengue virus 3 infection in the first six weeks of pregnancy of a dengue virus-naive traveller returning from Bali to Italy, April 2016. Euro Surveill 2016 0.75
103 Hodgkin's disease as unusual presentation of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder after autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for malignant glioma. BMC Cancer 2005 0.75
104 Surveillance and vaccination coverage of measles and rubella in Northern Italy. Hum Vaccin Immunother 2014 0.75
105 Monitoring of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-specific CD4+ T cell frequency by cytokine flow cytometry as a possible indicator for discontinuation of HCMV secondary prophylaxis in HAART-treated AIDS patients. J Clin Virol 2004 0.75
106 Phylogenetic analysis of HIV type 1 CRF02_AG in multiple genes in Italian and African patients living in Italy. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2014 0.75
107 Persistent human cosavirus infection in lung transplant recipient, Italy. Emerg Infect Dis 2013 0.75
108 Differential outcome of neurological HCMV infection in two hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. BMC Infect Dis 2012 0.75
109 Human herpes virus-6 chromosomal integration misled the management of Crohn's disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2011 0.75
110 L1 gene sequence of a putative novel type human papillomavirus in an immunocompetent patient with glans lichen sclerosus. New Microbiol 2015 0.75
111 West Nile virus outbreak in the Lombardy region, northern Italy, summer 2013. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2015 0.75
112 Multiple clusters of A(H1N1)pdm09 virus circulating in severe cases of influenza during the 2010-2011 season: a phylogenetic and molecular analysis of the neuraminidase gene. J Med Virol 2013 0.75