Francesco Messina
@inmi.it
Scopus Publications
- High-Resolution Genomic Surveillance of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: IC-2 Clonal Diversity, Resistance Determinants, and Virulence Signatures
Arianna Basile, Valentina Antonelli, Claudia Rotondo, Michele Properzi, Francesco Messina, Silvia D’Arezzo, Valentina Dimartino, Ivano Petriccione, Laura Loiacono, Maria Grazia Bocci, Giulia Capecchi, Alessia Arcangeli, Alessandra Marani, Filippo Pasquale Riggio, Massimiliano Lucidi, Francesco Imperi, Paolo Visca, Carla Fontana
Antibiotics, 2026
Background/Objectives: Acinetobacter baumannii is a critical opportunistic pathogen causing severe healthcare-associated infections, particularly in intensive care units. The global dissemination of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii (CRAB) and its environmental persistence necessitate continuous genomic surveillance to monitor high-risk clones. Methods: We conducted whole-genome sequencing (WGS), core genome multi-locus sequence typing (cgMLST), and phylogenomic analyses on 26 CRAB isolates collected at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) “Lazzaro Spallanzani” IRCCS (September 2023–September 2024). Antimicrobial resistance determinants, virulence-related genes, and capsular (KL) and lipooligosaccharide outer core (OCL) loci were characterized by interrogation of comprehensive bioinformatic pipelines. Results: All CRAB isolates displayed an extensively drug-resistant (XDR) phenotype, with a shared resistance pattern to carbapenems, aminoglycosides, fluoroquinolones, fosfomycin, and sulfonamides, while being susceptible only to colistin and cefiderocol. The carbapenemase gene blaOXA-23 was detected in all CRAB isolates, together with clone-specific blaOXA-51-like variants. For all isolates, the resistome profile fully matched the observed resistance phenotype. All isolates belonged to the International Clonal Lineage II (ICL II), Pasteur Sequence Type (ST) 2, and Oxford ST369, ST208, and ST455. Integration of cgMLST data with phylogenomic analyses and genome-based classification of KL and OCL loci revealed five distinct clusters, each one including nearly identical isolates, indicating both intra-hospital dissemination and possible inter-hospital transmission. Virulome profiling revealed heterogeneous repertoires of virulence-associated genes, resulting in cluster-specific patterns, while patristic analysis identified phylogenetic clusters linking the study isolates to other Italian and other European lineages. Conclusions: This study underscores the complex genomic landscape of CRAB in our setting, driven by the circulation of different ICL II clonal types, and reinforces the urgency of integrated genomic surveillance and robust antimicrobial stewardship to mitigate the spread of high-risk XDR A. baumannii clones. - Comprehensive Whole Genome Sequencing Dataset of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains Collected Across Italy
Arash Ghodousi, Angela Cannas, Elisa Tagliani, Virginia Batignani, Francesco Bisognin, Emanuele Borroni, Ornella Butera, Luigi Ruffo Codecasa, Paola Dal Monte, Flavio De Maio, Giovanni Delogu, Giovanna Mattei, Giulio Matteo, Francesco Messina, Maryam Omrani, Cinzia Perilli, Michela Sali, Giovanni Sotgiu, Marina Tadolini, Stefania Torri, Chiara Vismara, Enrico Girardi, Daniela Maria Cirillo
Scientific Data, 2025
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC), remains a major global health challenge. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) offers an invaluable tool for understanding the genetic diversity and drug resistance profiles of MTBC. This study provides a comprehensive WGS dataset of 2,520 MTBC isolates collected from four Italian regions-Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, and Lazio-between 2017 and 2020. The dataset includes genomic data along with associated metadata, such as geographic location and drug susceptibility profiles, providing a robust resource for studying TB epidemiology and transmission dynamics. This collection represents the largest publicly available MTBC WGS dataset from Italy and has been validated to ensure accuracy and completeness. By making this dataset accessible, we aim to support collaborative research, facilitate the exploration of MTBC evolution and drug resistance, and enhance TB surveillance efforts. - Investigating Skin Microbial Community in Malignant Melanoma Lesions
Michele Properzi, Valentina Dimartino, Daniele Pietrucci, Carla Fontana, Claudia Rotondo, Luigi Lembo, Francesco Ricci, Francesca Scatozza, Giovanni Di Lella, Francesco Messina, Giovanni Chillemi, Barbara Bartolini, Antonio Facchiano
Microorganisms, 2025
The skin microbiome is identified as one of the crucial factors in several pathological conditions, including its potential capacity in modulating cancer progression and response to treatment. A strong association of Bacilli and Betaproteobacteria classes and the Bacteroidetes phylum with melanoma is described in patients with cutaneous malignancies, while an imbalance of S. epidermidis and S. aureus is related to the progression of other skin cancers. In the present study, we characterized the microbial community in suspected lesions of 35 patients, classified, after histological analysis, as malignant melanoma lesions and benign non-melanoma lesions. Mirrored healthy skin were also included as negative control. No significant difference in alpha and beta diversity was observed when samples were categorized in four different groups (melanoma samples vs. contralateral healthy samples; melanoma samples vs. benign lesions; benign lesions vs. contralateral controls; melanoma controls vs. benign controls). The differential abundance analyses show that Corynebacterium urealyticum is more abundant in melanoma samples compared to their control, while Roseomonas gilardii is less abundant in melanoma. Staphylococcus massiliensis, Bacillus coagulans, Paracoccus yeei, Corynebacterium jeikeium, and Corynebacterium pyruviciproducens are present only in melanoma samples when compared with benign lesions. - Molecular exploration of host-pathogen interactions in severe Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection through a multi-level data integration approach
Francesco Messina, Claudia Rotondo, Luiz Ladeira, Sara Crosetti, Michele Properzi, Valentina Dimartino, Benedetta Riccitelli, Bernard Staumont, Giovanni Chillemi, Liesbet Geris, Maria Grazia Bocci, Carla Fontana
Frontiers in Medicine, 2025
IntroductionUnderstanding host-pathogen interactions is crucial for explaining the variability in sepsis outcomes, with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) remaining a significant public health concern. In this work, we explored PA-human host interaction mechanisms through a data integration workflow, focusing on protein-protein and metabolite-protein interactions, along with pathway modulation in affected organs during severe infections.MethodsA scoping literature review enabled us to construct a domain-based infection network encompassing pathogenesis concepts, molecular interactions, and host response signatures, providing a wide view of the relevant mechanisms involved in severe bacterial infections.ResultsOur analysis yielded a literature-based comprehensive description of PA infection mechanisms and an annotated dataset of 189 PA-human interactions involving 151 proteins/molecules (109 human proteins, 3 human metabolites, 34 PA proteins, and 5 PA molecules). This dataset was complemented with gene expression analysis from in vivo PA-infected lung samples. The results indicated a notable overexpression of proinflammatory pathways and PA-mediated modulation of host lung responses.DiscussionOur comprehensive molecular network of PA infection represents a valuable tool for the understanding of severe bacterial infections and offers potential applications in predicting clinical phenotypes. Through this approach combining omics data, clinical information, and pathogen characteristics, we have provided a foundation for future research in host-pathogen interactions and the mechanistic grounds to build dynamic computational models for clinical phenotype predictions. - Vδ2 T-cells response in people with Mpox infection: a three-month longitudinal assessment
Eleonora Cimini, Eleonora Tartaglia, Francesco Messina, Andrea Coppola, Valentina Mazzotta, Massimo Tempestilli, Giulia Matusali, Stefania Notari, Annalisa Mondi, Gianluca Prota, Alessandra Oliva, Carla Fontana, Enrico Girardi, Fabrizio Maggi, Andrea Antinori
Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2025
The first evidence that Orthopoxvirus induced the expansion in vivo and the recall of effector innate Vδ2 T-cells was described in a macaque model. Although, an engagement of αβ T-cells specific response in patients infected with human monkeypox (Mpox) was demonstrated, little is known about the role of γδ T-cells during Mpox infection. IFN-γ-producing γδ T-cells in the resistance to poxviruses may a key role in inducing a protective type 1 memory immunity. We analyzed the kinetics of Vδ2 T-cell response from the acute phase up to three months after Mpox infection. Fourteen MSM subjects (5 PWH, 35.7%) were enrolled in a longitudinal study from May to July 2022. Blood samples were collected in the early phase of infection (T1, T2) and at 3 months (T3M) post-symptom onset. Vδ2 T-cell profiles (CD45RA/CCR7), activation/exhaustion markers (CD38/HLA-DR/CD57/PD-1/TIM-3), cytokine production (IFN-γ/TNF-α) and CD107a expression were assessed by multiparametric flow cytometry. Ten healthy donors (HD) were used as a control group. At T1, Vδ2 T-cell frequency of patients decreased, and effector memory Vδ2 T-cells increased with respect to HD. Activation/exhaustion markers were higher than HD. Vδ2 functionality decreased at T1 related to HD, and it was associated with CD38 and HLA-DR higher expression as well as TIM-3. Vδ2 T-cells restored their profile at T3M. The presence of effector/activated Vδ2 T-cells in the early stages of Mpox infection and their capability to activate quickly, producing pro-inflammatory cytokines, may be useful to enhance the early adaptive response to human Mpox, maintaining a protective memory/effector T-cell response. - Immune digital twins for complex human pathologies: applications, limitations, and challenges
Anna Niarakis, Reinhard Laubenbacher, Gary An, Yaron Ilan, Jasmin Fisher, Åsmund Flobak, Kristin Reiche, María Rodríguez Martínez, Liesbet Geris, Luiz Ladeira, Lorenzo Veschini, Michael L. Blinov, Francesco Messina, Luis L. Fonseca, Sandra Ferreira, Arnau Montagud, Vincent Noël, Malvina Marku, Eirini Tsirvouli, Marcella M. Torres, Leonard A. Harris, T. J. Sego, Chase Cockrell, Amanda E. Shick, Hasan Balci, Albin Salazar, Kinza Rian, Ahmed Abdelmonem Hemedan, Marina Esteban-Medina, Bernard Staumont, Esteban Hernandez-Vargas, Shiny Martis B, Alejandro Madrid-Valiente, Panagiotis Karampelesis, Luis Sordo Vieira, Pradyumna Harlapur, Alexander Kulesza, Niloofar Nikaein, Winston Garira, Rahuman S. Malik Sheriff, Juilee Thakar, Van Du T. Tran, Jose Carbonell-Caballero, Soroush Safaei, Alfonso Valencia, Andrei Zinovyev, James A. Glazier
Npj Systems Biology and Applications, 2024
Digital twins represent a key technology for precision health. Medical digital twins consist of computational models that represent the health state of individual patients over time, enabling optimal therapeutics and forecasting patient prognosis. Many health conditions involve the immune system, so it is crucial to include its key features when designing medical digital twins. The immune response is complex and varies across diseases and patients, and its modelling requires the collective expertise of the clinical, immunology, and computational modelling communities. This review outlines the initial progress on immune digital twins and the various initiatives to facilitate communication between interdisciplinary communities. We also outline the crucial aspects of an immune digital twin design and the prerequisites for its implementation in the clinic. We propose some initial use cases that could serve as “proof of concept” regarding the utility of immune digital technology, focusing on diseases with a very different immune response across spatial and temporal scales (minutes, days, months, years). Lastly, we discuss the use of digital twins in drug discovery and point out emerging challenges that the scientific community needs to collectively overcome to make immune digital twins a reality. - Molecular Characterization of Multidrug-Resistant and Hypervirulent New Delhi Metallo-Beta-Lactamase Klebsiella pneumoniae in Lazio, Italy: A Five-Year Retrospective Study
Claudia Rotondo, Carolina Venditti, Ornella Butera, Valentina Dimartino, Francesco Messina, Michele Properzi, Claudia Caparrelli, Valentina Antonelli, Silvia D’Arezzo, Marina Selleri, Carla Nisii, Carla Fontana, and
Antibiotics, 2024
Background/Objectives: Antimicrobial resistance represents a challenge to public health systems because of the array of resistance and virulence mechanisms that lead to treatment failure and increased mortality rates. Although for years the main driver of carbapenem resistance in Italy has been the Klebsiella pneumoniae KPC carbapenemase, recent years have seen an increase in VIM and NDM metallo-beta-lactamases (MBLs). We conducted a five-year survey of New Delhi Metallo-beta-Lactamase (NDM)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (NDM-Kpn) clinical isolates from the Lazio region, Italy; the study aimed to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underpinning their resistant and virulent phenotype. Methods: Antimicrobial susceptibility was evaluated by automated systems and broth microdilution. In silico analysis of acquired resistance and virulence genes was performed using whole-genome sequencing (WGS), molecular typing through MLST, and core genome multi-locus sequence typing (cgMLST). Conclusions: A total of 126 clinical NDM-Kpn isolates were collected from 19 distinct hospitals in the Lazio region. Molecular analysis highlighted the existence of NDM-1 (108/126) and NDM-5 (18/126) variants, 18 Sequence Types (STs), and 15 Cluster Types (CTs). Notably, 31/126 isolates displayed a virulence score of 4, carrying ybt, ICEKp, iuc, and rmp genes. This study identified a variety of NDM-Kpn STs, mainly carrying the blaNDM-1 gene, with a significant number linked to high-risk clones. Of these isolates, 24.6% showed high-level resistance and virulence, emphasizing the risk of the spread of strains that combine multi-drug-resistance (MDR) and virulence. Proactive surveillance and international collaborations are needed to prevent the spread of high-risk clones, as well as further research into new antimicrobial agents to fight antibiotic resistance. - Cerebrospinal Fluid and Peripheral Blood Lymphomonocyte Single-Cell Transcriptomics in a Subject with Multiple Sclerosis Acutely Infected with HIV
Carmela Pinnetti, Gabriella Rozera, Francesco Messina, Pietro Giorgio Spezia, Elisabetta Lazzari, Lavinia Fabeni, Giovanni Chillemi, Daniele Pietrucci, Shalom Haggiag, Ilaria Mastrorosa, Alessandra Vergori, Enrico Girardi, Andrea Antinori, Fabrizio Maggi, Isabella Abbate
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024
Signatures of neurodegeneration in clinical samples from a subject with multiple sclerosis (MS) acutely infected with HIV were investigated with single-cell transcriptomics using 10X Chromium technology. Sequencing was carried out on NovaSeq-TM, and the analysis was performed with Cell Ranger software (v 7.1.0) associated with a specifically established bioinformatic pipeline. A total of 1446 single-cell transcriptomes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and 4647 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were obtained. In the CSF, many T-cell lymphocytes with an enriched amount of plasma cells and plasmacytoid dendritic (pDC) cells, as compared to the PBMCs, were detected. An unsupervised cluster analysis, putting together our patient transcriptomes with those of a publicly available MS scRNA-seq dataset, showed up-regulated microglial neurodegenerative gene expression in four clusters, two of which included our subject’s transcriptomes. A few HIV-1 transcripts were found only in the CD4 central memory T-cells of the CSF compartment, mapping to the gag-pol, vpu, and env regions. Our data, which describe the signs of neurodegenerative gene expression in a very peculiar clinical situation, did not distinguish the cause between multiple sclerosis and HIV infection, but they can give a glimpse of the high degree of resolution that may be obtained by the single-cell transcriptomic approach. - Sanitary Waters: Is It Worth Looking for Mycobacteria?
Angela Cannas, Francesco Messina, Paola Dal Monte, Francesco Bisognin, Giorgio Dirani, Silvia Zannoli, Giulia Gatti, Ornella Butera, Vincenzo Ferraro, Carla Nisii, Elena Vecchi, Giovanna Mattei, Giuseppe Diegoli, Antonio Santoro, Gian Luigi Belloli, Enrico Girardi, Tiziana Lazzarotto, Vittorio Sambri, Carla Fontana
Microorganisms, 2024
The freshwater environment is suitable for nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTMs) growth. Their high adaptability represents a considerable risk for sanitary water systems, which are a potential vector for NTMs transmission. This study investigated the occurrence of NTMs, such as Mycobacterium saskatchewanense, in hospital water systems to support the surveillance and control of potentially pathogenic NTMs. We analyzed 722 ultrapure dialysis fluid samples from Emilia Romagna Dialysis Services. Among these, 35 samples were found to be positive for M. saskatchewanense. The strains were characterized using whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and variability analysis was carried out along the whole M. saskatchewanense genome. This investigation revealed the exclusive presence of M. saskatchewanense in these dialysis machines, with low genetic variability among all strains (with a low number of different alleles: <15). The strong similarity among the strain groups was also confirmed in the WGS-based ML tree, with very few significant nodes, and no clusters were identified. This research highlights the necessity of implementing surveillance protocols and investigating any potential link to human infections, as well as stressing the urgency of enhancing surveillance and infection control measures. - Screening of Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae Strains with Multi-Drug Resistance and Virulence Profiles Isolated from an Italian Hospital between 2020 and 2023
Valentina Dimartino, Carolina Venditti, Francesco Messina, Silvia D’Arezzo, Marina Selleri, Ornella Butera, Carla Nisii, Alessandra Marani, Alessia Arcangeli, Roberta Gaziano, Terenzio Cosio, Pietro Scanzano, Carla Fontana
Antibiotics, 2024
Klebsiella pneumoniae strains that are resistant to multiple drugs (KPMDRs), which are often acquired in hospital settings and lead to healthcare-associated infections, pose a serious public health threat, as does hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKp), which can also cause serious infections in otherwise healthy individuals. The widespread and often unnecessary use of antibiotics seen during the recent COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges posed by antibiotic resistance in clinical settings. There is growing concern that hypervirulent (hvKp) strains may acquire genes that confer antimicrobial resistance, thus combining an MDR profile with their increased ability to spread to multiple body sites, causing difficult-to-treat infections. This study aimed to compare resistance and virulence profiles in KPC-3-producing K. pneumoniae isolates collected over four years (2020–2023). A genome-based surveillance of all MDR CRE-K. pneumoniae was used to identify genetic differences and to characterize the virulence and resistance profiles. Our results provide a picture of the evolution of resistance and virulence genes and contribute to avoiding the possible spread of isolates with characteristics of multi-drug resistance and increased virulence, which are thought to be one of the main global challenges to public health, within our hospital. - Implementation of Whole Genome Sequencing of Tuberculosis Isolates in a Referral Center in Rome: Six Years’ Experience in Characterizing Drug-Resistant TB and Disease Transmission
Angela Cannas, Ornella Butera, Antonio Mazzarelli, Francesco Messina, Antonella Vulcano, Mario Pasquale Parracino, Gina Gualano, Fabrizio Palmieri, Antonino Di Caro, Carla Nisii, Carla Fontana, Enrico Girardi
Antibiotics, 2024 - Epidemiological and Molecular Investigation of the Heater–Cooler Unit (HCU)-Related Outbreak of Invasive Mycobacterium chimaera Infection Occurred in Italy
Angela Cannas, Antonella Campanale, Daniela Minella, Francesco Messina, Ornella Butera, Carla Nisii, Antonio Mazzarelli, Carla Fontana, Lucia Lispi, Francesco Maraglino, Antonino Di Caro, Michela Sabbatucci
Microorganisms, 2023 - Drug-target identification in COVID-19 disease mechanisms using computational systems biology approaches
Anna Niarakis, Marek Ostaszewski, Alexander Mazein, Inna Kuperstein, Martina Kutmon, Marc E. Gillespie, Akira Funahashi, Marcio Luis Acencio, Ahmed Hemedan, Michael Aichem, Karsten Klein, Tobias Czauderna, Felicia Burtscher, Takahiro G. Yamada, Yusuke Hiki, Noriko F. Hiroi, Finterly Hu, Nhung Pham, Friederike Ehrhart, Egon L. Willighagen, Alberto Valdeolivas, Aurelien Dugourd, Francesco Messina, Marina Esteban-Medina, Maria Peña-Chilet, Kinza Rian, Sylvain Soliman, Sara Sadat Aghamiri, Bhanwar Lal Puniya, Aurélien Naldi, Tomáš Helikar, Vidisha Singh, Marco Fariñas Fernández, Viviam Bermudez, Eirini Tsirvouli, Arnau Montagud, Vincent Noël, Miguel Ponce-de-Leon, Dieter Maier, Angela Bauch, Benjamin M. Gyori, John A. Bachman, Augustin Luna, Janet Piñero, Laura I. Furlong, Irina Balaur, Adrien Rougny, Yohan Jarosz, Rupert W. Overall, Robert Phair, Livia Perfetto, Lisa Matthews, Devasahayam Arokia Balaya Rex, Marija Orlic-Milacic, Luis Cristobal Monraz Gomez, Bertrand De Meulder, Jean Marie Ravel, Bijay Jassal, Venkata Satagopam, Guanming Wu, Martin Golebiewski, Piotr Gawron, Laurence Calzone, Jacques S. Beckmann, Chris T. Evelo, Peter D’Eustachio, Falk Schreiber, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Joaquin Dopazo, Martin Kuiper, Alfonso Valencia, Olaf Wolkenhauer, Hiroaki Kitano, Emmanuel Barillot, Charles Auffray, Rudi Balling, Reinhard Schneider, and
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - Detection of recombinant breakpoint in the genome of human enterovirus E11 strain associated with a fatal nosocomial outbreak
Martina Rueca, Simone Lanini, Emanuela Giombini, Francesco Messina, Concetta Castilletti, Giuseppe Ippolito, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Maria Beatrice Valli
Virology Journal, 2022 - Investigating the Origin of Mycobacterium chimaera Contamination in Heater-Cooler Units: Integrated Analysis with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Whole-Genome Sequencing
F. Bisognin, F. Messina, O. Butera, C. Nisii, A. Mazzarelli, S. Cristino, M. R. Pascale, G. Lombardi, A. Cannas, P. Dal Monte
Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 - Machine Learning Data Analysis Highlights the Role of Parasutterella and Alloprevotella in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Daniele Pietrucci, Adelaide Teofani, Marco Milanesi, Bruno Fosso, Lorenza Putignani, Francesco Messina, Graziano Pesole, Alessandro Desideri, Giovanni Chillemi
Biomedicines, 2022 - Very High Negative Concordance Rate of RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 in Nasopharyngeal Swab and Tracheo-Bronchial Aspirate in Children
Anna Camporesi, Annalisa De Silvestri, Veronica Diotto, Stefania Ferrario, Laura Eccher, Alessandra De Ferrari, Francesco Messina, Gloria Pelizzo, Davide Mileto, Valeria Calcaterra, Danilo Buonsenso
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 - Virological and Serological Characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 Infections Diagnosed After mRNA BNT162b2 Vaccination Between December 2020 and March 2021
Francesca Colavita, Silvia Meschi, Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber, Martina Rueca, Francesco Vairo, Giulia Matusali, Daniele Lapa, Emanuela Giombini, Gabriella De Carli, Martina Spaziante, Francesco Messina, Giulia Bonfiglio, Fabrizio Carletti, Eleonora Lalle, Lavinia Fabeni, Giulia Berno, Vincenzo Puro, Barbara Bartolini, Antonino Di Caro, Giuseppe Ippolito, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Concetta Castilletti
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - The Easy-to-Use SARS-CoV-2 Assembler for Genome Sequencing: Development Study
Martina Rueca, Emanuela Giombini, Francesco Messina, Barbara Bartolini, Antonino Di Caro, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Cesare EM Gruber
Jmir Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, 2022 - Multi-omics approach to COVID-19: a domain-based literature review
Chiara Montaldo, Francesco Messina, Isabella Abbate, Manuela Antonioli, Veronica Bordoni, Alessandra Aiello, Fabiola Ciccosanti, Francesca Colavita, Chiara Farroni, Saeid Najafi Fard, Emanuela Giombini, Delia Goletti, Giulia Matusali, Gabriella Rozera, Martina Rueca, Alessandra Sacchi, Mauro Piacentini, Chiara Agrati, Gian Maria Fimia, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Francesco Nicola Lauria, Giuseppe Ippolito
Journal of Translational Medicine, 2021 - Corrigendum to: COVID19 Disease Map, a computational knowledge repository of virus–host interaction mechanisms (Molecular Systems Biology, (2021), 17, 10, 10.15252/msb.202110387)
Marek Ostaszewski, Anna Niarakis, Alexander Mazein, Inna Kuperstein, Robert Phair, Aurelio Orta‐Resendiz, Vidisha Singh, Sara Sadat Aghamiri, Marcio Luis Acencio, Enrico Glaab, Andreas Ruepp, Gisela Fobo, Corinna Montrone, Barbara Brauner, Goar Frishman, Luis Cristóbal Monraz Gómez, Julia Somers, Matti Hoch, Shailendra Kumar Gupta, Julia Scheel, Hanna Borlinghaus, Tobias Czauderna, Falk Schreiber, Arnau Montagud, Miguel Ponce de Leon, Akira Funahashi, Yusuke Hiki, Noriko Hiroi, Takahiro G Yamada, Andreas Dräger, Alina Renz, Muhammad Naveez, Zsolt Bocskei, Francesco Messina, Daniela Börnigen, Liam Fergusson, Marta Conti, Marius Rameil, Vanessa Nakonecnij, Jakob Vanhoefer, Leonard Schmiester, Muying Wang, Emily E Ackerman, Jason E Shoemaker, Jeremy Zucker, Kristie Oxford, Jeremy Teuton, Ebru Kocakaya, Gökçe Yağmur Summak, Kristina Hanspers, Martina Kutmon, Susan Coort, Lars Eijssen, Friederike Ehrhart, D A B Rex, Denise Slenter, Marvin Martens, Nhung Pham, Robin Haw, Bijay Jassal, Lisa Matthews, Marija Orlic‐Milacic, Andrea Senff‐Ribeiro, Karen Rothfels, Veronica Shamovsky, Ralf Stephan, Cristoffer Sevilla, Thawfeek Varusai, Jean‐Marie Ravel, Rupsha Fraser, Vera Ortseifen, Silvia Marchesi, Piotr Gawron, Ewa Smula, Laurent Heirendt, Venkata Satagopam, Guanming Wu, Anders Riutta, Martin Golebiewski, Stuart Owen, Carole Goble, Xiaoming Hu, Rupert W Overall, Dieter Maier, Angela Bauch, Benjamin M Gyori, John A Bachman, Carlos Vega, Valentin Grouès, Miguel Vazquez, Pablo Porras, Luana Licata, Marta Iannuccelli, Francesca Sacco, Anastasia Nesterova, Anton Yuryev, Anita de Waard, Denes Turei, Augustin Luna, Ozgun Babur, Sylvain Soliman, Alberto Valdeolivas, Marina Esteban‐Medina, Maria Peña‐Chilet, Kinza Rian, Tomáš Helikar, Bhanwar Lal Puniya, Dezso Modos, Agatha Treveil, Marton Olbei, Bertrand De Meulder, Stephane Ballereau, Aurélien Dugourd, Aurélien Naldi, Vincent Noël, Laurence Calzone, Chris Sander, Emek Demir, Tamas Korcsmaros, Tom C Freeman, Franck Augé, Jacques S Beckmann, Jan Hasenauer, Olaf Wolkenhauer, Egon L Willighagen, Alexander R Pico, Chris T Evelo, Marc E Gillespie, Lincoln D Stein, Henning Hermjakob, Peter D'Eustachio, Julio Saez‐Rodriguez, Joaquin Dopazo, Alfonso Valencia, Hiroaki Kitano, Emmanuel Barillot, Charles Auffray, Rudi Balling, Reinhard Schneider, and
Molecular Systems Biology, 2021 - Prophylactic heparin and risk of orotracheal intubation or death in patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 pneumonia
Alessandra Vergori, , Patrizia Lorenzini, Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Davide Roberto Donno, Gina Gualano, Emanuele Nicastri, Fabio Iacomi, Luisa Marchioni, Paolo Campioni, Vincenzo Schininà, Stefania Cicalini, Chiara Agrati, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Enrico Girardi, Giuseppe Ippolito, Francesco Vaia, Nicola Petrosillo, Andrea Antinori, Fabrizio Taglietti
Scientific Reports, 2021 - COVID19 Disease Map, a computational knowledge repository of virus–host interaction mechanisms
Marek Ostaszewski, Anna Niarakis, Alexander Mazein, Inna Kuperstein, Robert Phair, Aurelio Orta‐Resendiz, Vidisha Singh, Sara Sadat Aghamiri, Marcio Luis Acencio, Enrico Glaab, Andreas Ruepp, Gisela Fobo, Corinna Montrone, Barbara Brauner, Goar Frishman, Luis Cristóbal Monraz Gómez, Julia Somers, Matti Hoch, Shailendra Kumar Gupta, Julia Scheel, Hanna Borlinghaus, Tobias Czauderna, Falk Schreiber, Arnau Montagud, Miguel Ponce de Leon, Akira Funahashi, Yusuke Hiki, Noriko Hiroi, Takahiro G Yamada, Andreas Dräger, Alina Renz, Muhammad Naveez, Zsolt Bocskei, Francesco Messina, Daniela Börnigen, Liam Fergusson, Marta Conti, Marius Rameil, Vanessa Nakonecnij, Jakob Vanhoefer, Leonard Schmiester, Muying Wang, Emily E Ackerman, Jason E Shoemaker, Jeremy Zucker, Kristie Oxford, Jeremy Teuton, Ebru Kocakaya, Gökçe Yağmur Summak, Kristina Hanspers, Martina Kutmon, Susan Coort, Lars Eijssen, Friederike Ehrhart, Devasahayam Arokia Balaya Rex, Denise Slenter, Marvin Martens, Nhung Pham, Robin Haw, Bijay Jassal, Lisa Matthews, Marija Orlic‐Milacic, Andrea Senff Ribeiro, Karen Rothfels, Veronica Shamovsky, Ralf Stephan, Cristoffer Sevilla, Thawfeek Varusai, Jean‐Marie Ravel, Rupsha Fraser, Vera Ortseifen, Silvia Marchesi, Piotr Gawron, Ewa Smula, Laurent Heirendt, Venkata Satagopam, Guanming Wu, Anders Riutta, Martin Golebiewski, Stuart Owen, Carole Goble, Xiaoming Hu, Rupert W Overall, Dieter Maier, Angela Bauch, Benjamin M Gyori, John A Bachman, Carlos Vega, Valentin Grouès, Miguel Vazquez, Pablo Porras, Luana Licata, Marta Iannuccelli, Francesca Sacco, Anastasia Nesterova, Anton Yuryev, Anita de Waard, Denes Turei, Augustin Luna, Ozgun Babur, Sylvain Soliman, Alberto Valdeolivas, Marina Esteban‐Medina, Maria Peña‐Chilet, Kinza Rian, Tomáš Helikar, Bhanwar Lal Puniya, Dezso Modos, Agatha Treveil, Marton Olbei, Bertrand De Meulder, Stephane Ballereau, Aurélien Dugourd, Aurélien Naldi, Vincent Noël, Laurence Calzone, Chris Sander, Emek Demir, Tamas Korcsmaros, Tom C Freeman, Franck Augé, Jacques S Beckmann, Jan Hasenauer, Olaf Wolkenhauer, Egon L Wilighagen, Alexander R Pico, Chris T Evelo, Marc E Gillespie, Lincoln D Stein, Henning Hermjakob, Peter D'Eustachio, Julio Saez‐Rodriguez, Joaquin Dopazo, Alfonso Valencia, Hiroaki Kitano, Emmanuel Barillot, Charles Auffray, Rudi Balling, Reinhard Schneider, and
Molecular Systems Biology, 2021 - Looking for pathways related to COVID-19: confirmation of pathogenic mechanisms by SARS-CoV-2–host interactome
Francesco Messina, Emanuela Giombini, Chiara Montaldo, Ashish Arunkumar Sharma, Antonio Zoccoli, Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, Franco Locatelli, Alimuddin Zumla, Markus Maeurer, Maria R. Capobianchi, Francesco Nicola Lauria, Giuseppe Ippolito
Cell Death and Disease, 2021 - Molecular analysis of clinical isolates of ceftazidime-avibactam-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Carolina Venditti, Ornella Butera, Marcello Meledandri, Maria Pia Balice, Giulio Cesare Cocciolillo, Carla Fontana, Silvia D'Arezzo, Chiara De Giuli, Mario Antonini, Alessandro Capone, Francesco Messina, Carla Nisii, Antonino Di Caro
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2021 - Rationale and criteria for a covid-19 model framework
Francesco Messina, Chiara Montaldo, Isabella Abbate, Manuela Antonioli, Veronica Bordoni, Giulia Matusali, Alessandra Sacchi, Emanuela Giombini, Gian Fimia, Mauro Piacentini, Maria Capobianchi, Francesco Lauria, Giuseppe Ippolito, and
Viruses, 2021 - Sars-cov-2 serum neutralization assay: A traditional tool for a brand-new virus
Giulia Matusali, Francesca Colavita, Daniele Lapa, Silvia Meschi, Licia Bordi, Pierluca Piselli, Roberta Gagliardini, Angela Corpolongo, Emanuele Nicastri, Andrea Antinori, Giuseppe Ippolito, Maria Capobianchi, Concetta Castilletti, and
Viruses, 2021 - Risk and predictive factors of prolonged viral RNA shedding in upper respiratory specimens in a large cohort of COVID-19 patients admitted to an Italian reference hospital
Annalisa Mondi, Patrizia Lorenzini, Concetta Castilletti, Roberta Gagliardini, Eleonora Lalle, Angela Corpolongo, Maria Beatrice Valli, Fabrizio Taglietti, Stefania Cicalini, Laura Loiacono, Francesco Di Gennaro, Gianpiero D’Offizi, Fabrizio Palmieri, Emanuele Nicastri, Chiara Agrati, Nicola Petrosillo, Giuseppe Ippolito, Francesco Vaia, Enrico Girardi, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Andrea Antinori, Sara Zito, Maria Alessandra Abbonizio, Amina Abdeddaim, Elisabetta Agostini, Chiara Agrati, Fabrizio Albarello, Gioia Amadei, Alessandra Amendola, Andrea Antinori, Maria Assunta Antonica, Mario Antonini, Tommaso Ascoli Bartoli, Francesco Baldini, Raffaella Barbaro, Barbara Bartolini, Rita Bellagamba, Martina Benigni, Nazario Bevilacqua, Gianluigi Biava, Michele Bibas, Licia Bordi, Veronica Bordoni, Evangelo Boumis, Marta Branca, Rosanna Buonomo, Donatella Busso, Marta Camici, Paolo Campioni, Flaminia Canichella, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Alessandro Capone, Cinzia Caporale, Emanuela Caraffa, Ilaria Caravella, Fabrizio Carletti, Concetta Castilletti, Adriana Cataldo, Stefano Cerilli, Carlotta Cerva, Roberta Chiappini, Pierangelo Chinello, Maria Assunta Cianfarani, Carmine Ciaralli, Claudia Cimaglia, Nicola Cinicola, Veronica Ciotti, Stefania Cicalini, Francesca Colavita, Angela Corpolongo, Massimo Cristofaro, Salvatore Curiale, Alessandra D’Abramo, Cristina Dantimi, Alessia De Angelis, Giada De Angelis, Maria Grazia De Palo, Federico De Zottis, Virginia Di Bari, Rachele Di Lorenzo, Federica Di Stefano, Gianpiero D’Offizi, Davide Donno, Francesca Evangelista, Francesca Faraglia, Anna Farina, Federica Ferraro, Lorena Fiorentini, Andrea Frustaci, Matteo Fusetti, Vincenzo Galati, Roberta Gagliardini, Paola Gallì, Gabriele Garotto, Ilaria Gaviano, Saba Gebremeskel Tekle, Maria Letizia Giancola, Filippo Giansante, Emanuela Giombini, Guido Granata, Maria Cristina Greci, Elisabetta Grilli, Susanna Grisetti, Gina Gualano, Fabio Iacomi, Marta Iaconi, Giuseppina Iannicelli, Carlo Inversi, Giuseppe Ippolito, Eleonora Lalle, Maria Elena Lamanna, Simone Lanini, Daniele Lapa, Luciana Lepore, Raffaella Libertone, Raffaella Lionetti, Giuseppina Liuzzi, Laura Loiacono, Andrea Lucia, Franco Lufrani, Manuela Macchione, Gaetano Maffongelli, Alessandra Marani, Luisa Marchioni, Andrea Mariano, Maria Cristina Marini, Micaela Maritti, Alessandra Mastrobattista, Ilaria Mastrorosa, Giulia Matusali, Valentina Mazzotta, Paola Mencarini, Silvia Meschi, Francesco Messina, Sibiana Micarelli, Giulia Mogavero, Annalisa Mondi, Marzia Montalbano, Chiara Montaldo, Silvia Mosti, Silvia Murachelli, Maria Musso, Michela Nardi, Assunta Navarra, Emanuele Nicastri, Martina Nocioni, Pasquale Noto, Roberto Noto, Alessandra Oliva, Ilaria Onnis, Sandrine Ottou, Claudia Palazzolo, Emanuele Pallini, Fabrizio Palmieri, Giulio Palombi, Carlo Pareo, Virgilio Passeri, Federico Pelliccioni, Giovanna Penna, Antonella Petrecchia, Ada Petrone, Nicola Petrosillo, Elisa Pianura, Carmela Pinnetti, Maria Pisciotta, Pierluca Piselli, Silvia Pittalis, Agostina Pontarelli, Costanza Proietti, Vincenzo Puro, Paolo Migliorisi Ramazzini, Alessia Rianda, Gabriele Rinonapoli, Silvia Rosati, Dorotea Rubino, Martina Rueca, Alberto Ruggeri, Alessandra Sacchi, Alessandro Sampaolesi, Francesco Sanasi, Carmen Santagata, Alessandra Scarabello, Silvana Scarcia, Vincenzo Schininà, Paola Scognamiglio, Laura Scorzolini, Giulia Stazi, Giacomo Strano, Fabrizio Taglietti, Chiara Taibi, Giorgia Taloni, Tetaj Nardi, Roberto Tonnarini, Simone Topino, Martina Tozzi, Francesco Vaia, Francesco Vairo, Maria Beatrice Valli, Alessandra Vergori, Laura Vincenzi, Ubaldo Visco-Comandini, Serena Vita, Pietro Vittozzi, Mauro Zaccarelli, Antonella Zanetti, Sara Zito, Maria Alessandra Abbonizio, Amina Abdeddaim, Elisabetta Agostini, Chiara Agrati, Fabrizio Albarello, Gioia Amadei, Alessandra Amendola, Andrea Antinori, Maria Assunta Antonica, Mario Antonini, Tommaso Ascoli Bartoli, Francesco Baldini, Raffaella Barbaro, Barbara Bartolini, Rita Bellagamba, Martina Benigni, Nazario Bevilacqua, Gianluigi Biava, Michele Bibas, Licia Bordi, Veronica Bordoni, Evangelo Boumis, Marta Branca, Rosanna Buonomo, Donatella Busso, Marta Camici, Paolo Campioni, Flaminia Canichella, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Alessandro Capone, Cinzia Caporale, Emanuela Caraffa, Ilaria Caravella, Fabrizio Carletti, Concetta Castilletti, Adriana Cataldo, Stefano Cerilli, Carlotta Cerva, Roberta Chiappini, Pierangelo Chinello, Maria Assunta Cianfarani, Carmine Ciaralli, Claudia Cimaglia, Nicola Cinicola, Veronica Ciotti, Stefania Cicalini, Francesca Colavita, Angela Corpolongo, Massimo Cristofaro, Salvatore Curiale, Alessandra D’Abramo, Cristina Dantimi, Alessia De Angelis, Giada De Angelis, Maria Grazia De Palo, Federico De Zottis, Virginia Di Bari, Rachele Di Lorenzo, Federica Di Stefano, Gianpiero D’Offizi, Davide Donno, Francesca Evangelista, Francesca Faraglia, Anna Farina, Federica Ferraro, Lorena Fiorentini, Andrea Frustaci, Matteo Fusetti, Vincenzo Galati, Roberta Gagliardini, Paola Gallì, Gabriele Garotto, Ilaria Gaviano, Saba Gebremeskel Tekle, Maria Letizia Giancola, Filippo Giansante, Emanuela Giombini, Guido Granata, Maria Cristina Greci, Elisabetta Grilli, Susanna Grisetti, Gina Gualano, Fabio Iacomi, Marta Iaconi, Giuseppina Iannicelli, Carlo Inversi, Giuseppe Ippolito, Eleonora Lalle, Maria Elena Lamanna, Simone Lanini, Daniele Lapa, Luciana Lepore, Raffaella Libertone, Raffaella Lionetti, Giuseppina Liuzzi, Laura Loiacono, Andrea Lucia, Franco Lufrani, Manuela Macchione, Gaetano Maffongelli, Alessandra Marani, Luisa Marchioni, Andrea Mariano, Maria Cristina Marini, Micaela Maritti, Alessandra Mastrobattista, Ilaria Mastrorosa, Giulia Matusali, Valentina Mazzotta, Paola Mencarini, Silvia Meschi, Francesco Messina, Sibiana Micarelli, Giulia Mogavero, Annalisa Mondi, Marzia Montalbano, Chiara Montaldo, Silvia Mosti, Silvia Murachelli, Maria Musso, Michela Nardi, Assunta Navarra, Emanuele Nicastri, Martina Nocioni, Pasquale Noto, Roberto Noto, Alessandra Oliva, Ilaria Onnis, Sandrine Ottou, Claudia Palazzolo, Emanuele Pallini, Fabrizio Palmieri, Giulio Palombi, Carlo Pareo, Virgilio Passeri, Federico Pelliccioni, Giovanna Penna, Antonella Petrecchia, Ada Petrone, Nicola Petrosillo, Elisa Pianura, Carmela Pinnetti, Maria Pisciotta, Pierluca Piselli, Silvia Pittalis, Agostina Pontarelli, Costanza Proietti, Vincenzo Puro, Paolo Migliorisi Ramazzini, Alessia Rianda, Gabriele Rinonapoli, Silvia Rosati, Dorotea Rubino, Martina Rueca, Alberto Ruggeri, Alessandra Sacchi, Alessandro Sampaolesi, Francesco Sanasi, Carmen Santagata, Alessandra Scarabello, Silvana Scarcia, Vincenzo Schininà, Paola Scognamiglio, Laura Scorzolini, Giulia Stazi, Giacomo Strano, Fabrizio Taglietti, Chiara Taibi, Giorgia Taloni, Tetaj Nardi, Roberto Tonnarini, Simone Topino, Martina Tozzi, Francesco Vaia, Francesco Vairo, Maria Beatrice Valli, Alessandra Vergori, Laura Vincenzi, Ubaldo Visco-Comandini, Serena Vita, Pietro Vittozzi, Mauro Zaccarelli, Antonella Zanetti, Sara Zito
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 - SARS-CoV-2 Early Screening at the Point of Entry: Travelers From Bangladesh to Italy–July 2020
Martina Rueca, Antonino Di Caro, Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber, Francesco Messina, Emanuela Giombini, Maria Beatrice Valli, Eleonora Lalle, Simone Lanini, Francesco Vairo, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Barbara Bartolini
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - Importance of surveillance of new delhi metallo-beta-lactamase klebsiella pneumoniae: Molecular characterization and clonality of strains isolated in the lazio region, italy
Martina Spaziante, Carolina Venditti, Ornella Butera, Francesco Messina, Antonino Di Caro, Gilda Tonziello, Simone Lanini, Maria Adriana Cataldo, Vincenzo Puro
Infection and Drug Resistance, 2021 - Author Correction: COVID-19 Disease Map, building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms (Scientific Data, (2020), 7, 1, (136), 10.1038/s41597-020-0477-8)
Marek Ostaszewski, Alexander Mazein, Marc E. Gillespie, Inna Kuperstein, Anna Niarakis, Henning Hermjakob, Alexander R. Pico, Egon L. Willighagen, Chris T. Evelo, Jan Hasenauer, Falk Schreiber, Andreas Dräger, Emek Demir, Olaf Wolkenhauer, Laura I. Furlong, Emmanuel Barillot, Joaquin Dopazo, Aurelio Orta-Resendiz, Francesco Messina, Alfonso Valencia, Akira Funahashi, Hiroaki Kitano, Charles Auffray, Rudi Balling, Reinhard Schneider
Scientific Data, 2020 - COVID-19 Disease Map, building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms
Marek Ostaszewski, Alexander Mazein, Marc E. Gillespie, Inna Kuperstein, Anna Niarakis, Henning Hermjakob, Alexander R. Pico, Egon L. Willighagen, Chris T. Evelo, Jan Hasenauer, Falk Schreiber, Andreas Dräger, Emek Demir, Olaf Wolkenhauer, Laura I. Furlong, Emmanuel Barillot, Joaquin Dopazo, Aurelio Orta-Resendiz, Francesco Messina, Alfonso Valencia, Akira Funahashi, Hiroaki Kitano, Charles Auffray, Rudi Balling, Reinhard Schneider
Scientific Data, 2020 - Virological characterization of the first 2 COVID-19 patients diagnosed in Italy: Phylogenetic analysis, virus shedding profile from different body sites, and antibody response kinetics
Francesca Colavita, Daniele Lapa, Fabrizio Carletti, Eleonora Lalle, Francesco Messina, Martina Rueca, Giulia Matusali, Silvia Meschi, Licia Bordi, Patrizia Marsella, Emanuele Nicastri, Luisa Marchioni, Andrea Mariano, Laura Scorzolini, Tommaso Ascoli Bartoli, Antonino Di Caro, Giuseppe Ippolito, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Concetta Castilletti, Isabella Abbate, Chiara Agrati, Loredana Aleo, Tonino Alonzi, Alessandra Amendola, Claudia Apollonio, Nicolina Arduini, Barbara Bartolini, Giulia Berno, Silvia Biancone, Mirella Biava, Angela Bibbò, Licia Bordi, Carla Brega, Marco Canali, Angela Cannas, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Fabrizio Carletti, Stefania Carrara, Rita Casetti, Concetta Castilletti, Roberta Chiappini, Lucia Ciafrone, Eleonora Cimini, Sabrina Coen, Francesca Colavita, Rossella Condello, Antonio Coppola, Silvia D’Arezzo, Antonino Di Caro, Stefania Di Filippo, Chiara Di Giuli, Lavinia Fabeni, Luisa Felici, Valeria Ferraioli, Federica Forbici, Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Emanuela Giombini, Caterina Gori, Silvia Graziano, Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber, Daniele Khouri, Eleonora Lalle, Daniele Lapa, Barbara Leone, Patrizia Marsella, Chiara Massimino, Giulia Matusali, Antonio Mazzarelli, Silvia Meschi, Francesco Messina, Claudia Minosse, Claudia Montaldo, Stefania Neri, Carla Nisii, Elisabetta Petrivelli, Fabrizio Petroni, Elisa Petruccioli, Marina Pisciotta, Daniele Pizzi, Gianluca Prota, Fabrizio Raparelli, Gabriella Rozera, Martina Rueca, Rossella Sabatini, Silvia Sarti, Giuseppe Sberna, Roberta Sciamanna, Marina Selleri, Carla Selvaggi, Catia Sias, Chiara Stellitano, Antonietta Toffoletti, Silvia Truffa, Federica Turchi, Maria Beatrice Valli, Carolina Venditti, Tiziana Vescovo, Donatella Vincenti, Antonella Vulcano, Emma Zambelli, Maria Alessandra Abbonizio, Chiara Agrati, Fabrizio Albarello, Gioia Amadei, Alessandra Amendola, Mario Antonini, Raffaella Barbaro, Barbara Bartolini, Martina Benigni, Nazario Bevilacqua, Licia Bordi, Veronica Bordoni, Marta Branca, Paolo Campioni, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Cinzia Caporale, Ilaria Caravella, Fabrizio Carletti, Concetta Castilletti, Roberta Chiappini, Carmine Ciaralli, Francesca Colavita, Angela Corpolongo, Massimo Cristofaro, Salvatore Curiale, Alessandra D’Abramo, Cristina Dantimi, Alessia De Angelis, Giada De Angelis, Rachele Di Lorenzo, Federica Di Stefano, Federica Ferraro, Lorena Fiorentini, Andrea Frustaci, Paola Gallì, Gabriele Garotto, Maria Letizia Giancola, Filippo Giansante, Emanuela Giombini, Maria Cristina Greci, Giuseppe Ippolito, Eleonora Lalle, Simone Lanini, Daniele Lapa, Luciana Lepore, Andrea Lucia, Franco Lufrani, Manuela Macchione, Alessandra Marani, Luisa Marchioni, Andrea Mariano, Maria Cristina Marini, Micaela Maritti, Giulia Matusali, Silvia Meschi, Francesco Messina, Chiara Montaldo, Silvia Murachelli, Emanuele Nicastri, Roberto Noto, Claudia Palazzolo, Emanuele Pallini, Virgilio Passeri, Federico Pelliccioni, Antonella Petrecchia, Ada Petrone, Nicola Petrosillo, Elisa Pianura, Maria Pisciotta, Silvia Pittalis, Costanza Proietti, Vincenzo Puro, Gabriele Rinonapoli, Martina Rueca, Alessandra Sacchi, Francesco Sanasi, Carmen Santagata, Silvana Scarcia, Vincenzo Schininà, Paola Scognamiglio, Laura Scorzolini, Giulia Stazi, Francesco Vaia, Francesco Vairo, Maria Beatrice Valli, Isabella Abbate, Chiara Agrati, Loredana Aleo, Tonino Alonzi, Alessandra Amendola, Claudia Apollonio, Nicolina Arduini, Barbara Bartolini, Giulia Berno, Silvia Biancone, Mirella Biava, Angela Bibbò, Licia Bordi, Carla Brega, Marco Canali, Angela Cannas, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Fabrizio Carletti, Stefania Carrara, Rita Casetti, Concetta Castilletti, Roberta Chiappini, Lucia Ciafrone, Eleonora Cimini, Sabrina Coen, Francesca Colavita, Rossella Condello, Antonio Coppola, Silvia D’Arezzo, Antonino Di Caro, Stefania Di Filippo, Chiara Di Giuli, Lavinia Fabeni, Luisa Felici, Valeria Ferraioli, Federica Forbici, Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Emanuela Giombini, Caterina Gori, Silvia Graziano, Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber, Daniele Khouri, Eleonora Lalle, Daniele Lapa, Barbara Leone, Patrizia Marsella, Chiara Massimino, Giulia Matusali, Antonio Mazzarelli, Silvia Meschi, Francesco Messina, Claudia Minosse, Claudia Montaldo, Stefania Neri, Carla Nisii, Elisabetta Petrivelli, Fabrizio Petroni, Elisa Petruccioli, Marina Pisciotta, Daniele Pizzi, Gianluca Prota, Fabrizio Raparelli, Gabriella Rozera, Martina Rueca, Rossella Sabatini, Silvia Sarti, Giuseppe Sberna, Roberta Sciamanna, Marina Selleri, Carla Selvaggi, Catia Sias, Chiara Stellitano, Antonietta Toffoletti, Silvia Truffa, Federica Turchi, Maria Beatrice Valli, Carolina Venditti, Tiziana Vescovo, Donatella Vincenti, Antonella Vulcano, Emma Zambelli, Maria Alessandra Abbonizio, Chiara Agrati, Fabrizio Albarello, Gioia Amadei, Alessandra Amendola, Mario Antonini, Raffaella Barbaro, Barbara Bartolini, Martina Benigni, Nazario Bevilacqua, Licia Bordi, Veronica Bordoni, Marta Branca, Paolo Campioni, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Cinzia Caporale, Ilaria Caravella, Fabrizio Carletti, Concetta Castilletti, Roberta Chiappini, Carmine Ciaralli, Francesca Colavita, Angela Corpolongo, Massimo Cristofaro, Salvatore Curiale, Alessandra D’Abramo, Cristina Dantimi, Alessia De Angelis, Giada De Angelis, Rachele Di Lorenzo, Federica Di Stefano, Federica Ferraro, Lorena Fiorentini, Andrea Frustaci, Paola Gallì, Gabriele Garotto, Maria Letizia Giancola, Filippo Giansante, Emanuela Giombini, Maria Cristina Greci, Giuseppe Ippolito, Eleonora Lalle, Simone Lanini, Daniele Lapa, Luciana Lepore, Andrea Lucia, Franco Lufrani, Manuela Macchione, Alessandra Marani, Luisa Marchioni, Andrea Mariano, Maria Cristina Marini, Micaela Maritti, Giulia Matusali, Silvia Meschi, Francesco Messina, Chiara Montaldo, Silvia Murachelli, Emanuele Nicastri, Roberto Noto, Claudia Palazzolo, Emanuele Pallini, Virgilio Passeri, Federico Pelliccioni, Antonella Petrecchia, Ada Petrone, Nicola Petrosillo, Elisa Pianura, Maria Pisciotta, Silvia Pittalis, Costanza Proietti, Vincenzo Puro, Gabriele Rinonapoli, Martina Rueca, Alessandra Sacchi, Francesco Sanasi, Carmen Santagata, Silvana Scarcia, Vincenzo Schininà, Paola Scognamiglio, Laura Scorzolini, Giulia Stazi, Francesco Vaia, Francesco Vairo, Maria Beatrice Valli, and
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2020 - About the origin of the first two Sars-CoV-2 infections in Italy: Inference not supported by appropriate sequence analysis
Fabrizio Carletti, Eleonora Lalle, Francesco Messina, Giuseppe Ippolito, Maria R. Capobianchi
Journal of Medical Virology, 2020 - Compartmentalized replication of sars-cov-2 in upper vs. Lower respiratory tract assessed by whole genome quasispecies analysis
Martina Rueca, Barbara Bartolini, Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber, Antonio Piralla, Fausto Baldanti, Emanuela Giombini, Francesco Messina, Luisa Marchioni, Giuseppe Ippolito, Antonino Di Caro, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi
Microorganisms, 2020 - Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation
Francesco Vairo, Martin Aimè Coussoud-Mavoungou, Francine Ntoumi, Concetta Castilletti, Lambert Kitembo, Najmul Haider, Fabrizio Carletti, Francesca Colavita, Cesare Gruber, Marco Iannetta, Francesco Messina, Simone Lanini, Biez Ulrich Judicaël, Emanuela Giombini, Chiara Montaldo, Chantal Portella, Steve Diafouka-Diatela, Martina Rueca, Richard Kock, Barbara Bartolini, Leonard Mboera, Vincent Munster, Robert Fischer, Stephanie Seifert, César Muñoz-Fontela, Beatriz Escudero-Pérez, Sergio Gomez-Medina, Emily Nelson, Patrick Kjia Tungu, Emanuele Nicastri, Vincenzo Puro, Antonino Di Caro, Maria Capobianchi, Jacqueline Mikolo, Alimuddin Zumla, Giuseppe Ippolito, and
Viruses, 2020 - SARS-CoV-2 isolation from ocular secretions of a patient with COVID-19 in Italy with prolonged viral RNA detection
Francesca Colavita, Daniele Lapa, Fabrizio Carletti, Eleonora Lalle, Licia Bordi, Patrizia Marsella, Emanuele Nicastri, Nazario Bevilacqua, Maria Letizia Giancola, Angela Corpolongo, Giuseppe Ippolito, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Concetta Castilletti
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020 - Reduced susceptibility to carbapenems in a klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolate producing SCO-1 and CTX-M-15 β-Lactamases together with OmpK35 and OmpK36 porin deficiency
Carolina Venditti, Ornella Butera, Anna Proia, Luigi Rigacci, Bruno Mariani, Gabriella Parisi, Francesco Messina, Alessandro Capone, Carla Nisii, Antonino Di Caro
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2020 - SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic analysis, Lazio Region, Italy, February–March 2020
Barbara Bartolini, Martina Rueca, Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber, Francesco Messina, Fabrizio Carletti, Emanuela Giombini, Eleonora Lalle, Licia Bordi, Giulia Matusali, Francesca Colavita, Concetta Castilletti, Francesco Vairo, Giuseppe Ippolito, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Antonino Di Caro
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 - Molecular characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from the first case of COVID-19 in Italy
M.R. Capobianchi, M. Rueca, F. Messina, E. Giombini, F. Carletti, F. Colavita, C. Castilletti, E. Lalle, L. Bordi, F. Vairo, E. Nicastri, G. Ippolito, C.E.M. Gruber, B. Bartolini
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2020 - COVID-19: Viral-host interactome analyzed by network based-approach model to study pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Francesco Messina, , Emanuela Giombini, Chiara Agrati, Francesco Vairo, Tommaso Ascoli Bartoli, Samir Al Moghazi, Mauro Piacentini, Franco Locatelli, Gary Kobinger, Markus Maeurer, Alimuddin Zumla, Maria R. Capobianchi, Francesco Nicola Lauria, Giuseppe Ippolito
Journal of Translational Medicine, 2020 - Origin of HAV strains responsible for 2016-2017 outbreak among MSM: Viral phylodynamics in Lazio region
Claudia Minosse, Francesco Messina, Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Silvia Meschi, Paola Scognamiglio, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Giuseppe Ippolito, Simone Lanini
Plos One, 2020 - Expanding usutu virus circulation in italy: Detection in the Lazio region, central Italy, 2017 to 2018
Fabrizio Carletti, Francesca Colavita, Francesca Rovida, Elena Percivalle, Fausto Baldanti, Ida Ricci, Claudio De Liberato, Francesca Rosone, Francesco Messina, Eleonora Lalle, Licia Bordi, Francesco Vairo, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Giuseppe Ippolito, Giuseppina Cappiello, Alberto Spanò, Silvia Meschi, Concetta Castilletti
Eurosurveillance, 2019 - Gut microbiota has a widespread and modifiable effect on host gene regulation
Allison L. Richards, Amanda L. Muehlbauer, Adnan Alazizi, Michael B. Burns, Anthony Findley, Francesco Messina, Trevor J. Gould, Camilla Cascardo, Roger Pique-Regi, Ran Blekhman, Francesca Luca
Msystems, 2019 - A finely resolved phylogeny of y chromosome Hg J illuminates the processes of Phoenician and Greek colonizations in the Mediterranean
Andrea Finocchio, Beniamino Trombetta, Francesco Messina, Eugenia D’Atanasio, Nejat Akar, Aphrodite Loutradis, Emmanuel I. Michalodimitrakis, Fulvio Cruciani, Andrea Novelletto
Scientific Reports, 2018 - A genetic portrait of the South-Eastern Carpathians based on autosomal short tandem repeats loci used in forensics
Alessandro Benvisto, Francesco Messina, Andrea Finocchio, Luis Popa, Mihaela Stefan, Gheorghe Stefanescu, Catalin Mironeanu, Andrea Novelletto, Cesare Rapone, Andrea Berti
American Journal of Human Biology, 2018 - Signs of continental ancestry in urban populations of Peru through autosomal STR loci and mitochondrial DNA typing
Francesco Messina, Tullia Di Corcia, Michele Ragazzo, Cesar Sanchez Mellado, Irene Contini, Patrizia Malaspina, Bianca Maria Ciminelli, Olga Rickards, Carla Jodice
Plos One, 2018 - Enlarging the gene-geography of Europe and the Mediterranean area to STR loci of common forensic use: longitudinal and latitudinal frequency gradients
Francesco Messina, Andrea Finocchio, Nejat Akar, Aphrodite Loutradis, Emmanuel I. Michalodimitrakis, Radim Brdicka, Carla Jodice, Andrea Novelletto
Annals of Human Biology, 2018 - An historical approach to the genetic distribution of KIR and HLA ligands in Eastern Sicilians compared to modern descendants of their invaders
Cristina Capittini, Francesco Messina, Fabrizio Puglisi, Maria Azzaro, Sebastiana Toscano, Annalisa De Silvestri, Carmine Tinelli, Grazia Sortino
Human Immunology, 2018 - Linking between genetic structure and geographical distance: Study of the maternal gene pool in the Ethiopian population
Francesco Messina, Giuseppina Scano, Irene Contini, Cristina Martínez-Labarga, Gian Franco De Stefano, Olga Rickards
Annals of Human Biology, 2017 - Spatially explicit models to investigate geographic patterns in the distribution of forensic STRs: Application to the north-eastern mediterranean
Francesco Messina, Andrea Finocchio, Nejat Akar, Aphrodite Loutradis, Emmanuel I. Michalodimitrakis, Radim Brdicka, Carla Jodice, Andrea Novelletto
Plos One, 2016 - Central Italy: History of ancient and current migrations
Italy Social Environmental and Agricultural Issues, 2016 - Traces of forgotten historical events in mountain communities in Central Italy: A genetic insight
Francesco Messina, Andrea Finocchio, Mario Federico Rolfo, Flavio De Angelis, Cesare Rapone, Martina Coletta, Cristina Martínez-Labarga, Gianfranco Biondi, Andrea Berti, Olga Rickards
American Journal of Human Biology, 2015 - Mitochondrial DNA variation in an isolated area of Central Italy
Francesco Messina, Gabriele Scorrano, Cristina Martínez Labarga, Mario Federico Rolfo, Olga Rickards
Annals of Human Biology, 2010