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List of works by Cristina Costa

A case of ureteral lesions in a renal transplant recipient with a co-infection of BK virus and JC virus.

scientific article published on 12 December 2006

Acute respiratory distress syndrome associated with HHV-7 infection in an immunocompetent patient: a case report

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Alternative molecular tests for virological diagnosis.

scientific article published on March 2013

Circulating CD4+CD25 bright FOXP3+ T cells are up-regulated by biological therapies and correlate with the clinical response in psoriasis patients.

scientific article published on 11 September 2009

Clinical impact of HSV-1 detection in the lower respiratory tract from hospitalized adult patients

scientific article published on 30 April 2012

Combined cytomegalovirus prophylaxis in lung transplantation: effects on acute rejection, lymphocytic bronchitis/bronchiolitis, and herpesvirus infections.

scientific article published in July 2008

Combined measurement of serum DNA and urine VP1 messenger RNA in monitoring BK virus replication in kidney graft recipients.

scientific article published in May 2011

Combined prophylaxis decreases incidence of CMV-associated pneumonia after lung transplantation.

scientific article published in May 2009

Comparison of two nucleic acid extraction and testing systems for HCMV-DNA detection and quantitation on whole blood specimens from transplant patients.

scientific article published on 4 August 2013

Detection and typing of BKV, JCV, and SV40 by multiplex nested polymerase chain reaction

Detection of Human Bocavirus in bronchoalveolar lavage from Italian adult patients

scientific article published on 25 March 2009

Detection of Mimivirus in Bronchoalveolar Lavage of Ventilated and Nonventilated Patients

scientific article published on 02 November 2011

Detection of herpesviruses 1-6 and community-acquired respiratory viruses in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis

scientific article published on 15 February 2014

Detection of human cytomegalovirus in transbronchial biopsies from lung transplant recipients.

scientific article published on 19 February 2013

Detection of human herpesvirus-7 DNA in bronchoalveolar lavage.

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Detection of human rhinoviruses in the lower respiratory tract of lung transplant recipients

scientific article published on 03 April 2011

Detection of parvovirus B19 in the lower respiratory tract.

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Detection of the novel variant of influenza virus A/H1N1v in bronchoalveolar lavage of adult hospitalized patients during the 2009/2010 winter season.

scientific article published in April 2011

Development and utilization of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay to evaluate human polyomavirus JC DNA load.

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Development of a LUX real-time PCR for the detection and quantification of human herpesvirus 7.

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Development of a RT real-time PCR for the detection and quantification of human rhinoviruses.

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Development of a multiplex polymerase chain reaction for detection and typing of major human herpesviruses in cerebrospinal fluid

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Development of a quantitative-competitive PCR for quantification of human cytomegalovirus load and comparison with antigenaemia, viraemia and pp67 RNA detection by nucleic acid sequence-based amplification

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Development of real time RT-PCR assays for detection of type A influenza virus and for subtyping of avian H5 and H7 hemagglutinin subtypes.

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Diagnosis of viral gastroenteritis: limits and potential of currently available procedures

scientific article published on 04 July 2015

Effect of CMV-immunoglobulins (cytotect biotest) prophylaxis on CMV pneumonia after lung transplantation.

scientific article published on 15 January 2011

Evaluation of CMV-specific cellular immune response by EliSPOT assay in kidney transplant patients

scientific article published on 5 October 2014

Evaluation of Epstein-Barr virus-specific immunologic response in solid organ transplant recipients with an enzyme-linked ImmunoSpot assay.

scientific article published on September 2013

Evaluation of Two Set of Primers for Detection of Immediate Early Gene UL123 of Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV)

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Evaluation of polyomavirus BK cellular immune response by an ELISpot assay and relation to viral replication in kidney transplant recipients

scientific article published on April 2014

Evaluation of six methods for extraction and purification of viral DNA from urine and serum samples.

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Evaluation of virus-specific cellular immune response in transplant patients.

scientific article published on December 2012

Everolimus-based immunosuppressive regimens in lung transplant recipients: impact on CMV infection

scientific article published on 7 November 2014

Genotyping of polyomavirus BK by Real Time PCR for VP1 gene

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B genotyping from bronchoalveolar lavage specimens.

scientific article published in April 2011

Human cytomegalovirus load in fresh and glycerolized skin grafts.

scientific article published on July 2010

Human herpes virus 8 infection in kidney transplant patients from an area of northwestern Italy (Piemonte region).

scientific article published on 12 March 2007

Human herpesvirus 7 detection by quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction in primary cutaneous T-cell lymphomas and healthy subjects: lack of a pathogenic role.

scientific article published on 6 September 2008

Human polyomavirus BK in patients with lupus nephritis: clinical and histological correlations

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Identification of the novel KI and WU polyomaviruses in human tonsils

scientific article published on 02 July 2009

Immunosuppressive agents and bone disease in renal transplant patients with hypercalcemia.

scientific article published in May 2010

Immunosuppressive agents and metabolic factors of cardiovascular risk in renal transplant recipients.

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Improvement of HRV Quantification Using cRNA-Based Standards for Real Time RT-PCR

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Infliximab and the risk of latent viruses reactivation in active Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Italian trials of interferon alpha in chronic delta hepatitis

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Low‐level tacrolimus‐based immunosuppression and polyomavirus BK surveillance in renal transplant patients

scientific article published on September 26, 2011

Molecular epidemiology of Epstein-Barr virus in adult kidney transplant recipients.

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Monitoring of human Cytomegalovirus infection by antigenemia and viremia in the first 100 days following renal transplantation and relation to antiviral strategies

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Multiplex-nested RT-PCR to evaluate latent and lytic Epstein Barr virus gene expression.

scientific article published on 17 November 2006

Non-organ-specific and anti-endothelial antibodies in relation to CMV infection and acute rejection in renal transplant recipients

scientific article published in July 2010

Non-organ-specific autoantibodies in renal transplant recipients: relation to BK virus infection.

scientific article published in April 2008

Polyomavirus-associated nephropathy

scientific article published on December 2012

Polyomavirus-associated nephropathy: critical issues in virological monitoring

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Polyomaviruses BK- And JC-DNA quantitation in kidney allograft biopsies.

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Pre-transplant assessment of CMV-specific immune response by Elispot assay in kidney transplant recipients

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Prevalence and clinical impact of polyomaviruses KI and WU in lung transplant recipients.

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Prevalence and significance of human parvovirus variants in skin from primary cutaneous T cell lymphomas, inflammatory dermatoses and healthy subjects.

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Prevalence of polyomaviruses BK, JC, SV40, KI, and WU in non-malignant tonsil specimens.

scientific article published in December 2010

Primary biliary cirrhosis: lung involvement

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Quantitative RT real time PCR and indirect immunofluorescence for the detection of human parainfluenza virus 1, 2, 3.

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Quantitative competitive-PCR assay to measure human parvovirus B19-DNA load in serum samples

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Quantitative detection of Epstein-Barr virus in bronchoalveolar lavage from transplant and nontransplant patients.

scientific article published in November 2008

Quantitative detection of HHV-6 and HHV-7 in transbronchial biopsies from lung transplant recipients

scientific article published on 30 July 2011

Quantitative detection of the new polyomaviruses KI, WU and Merkel cell virus in transbronchial biopsies from lung transplant recipients.

scientific article published on 30 June 2010

Rabbit-derived anti-HD antibodies for HDAg immunoblotting

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Rapid shell vial culture for the detection of respiratory viruses from bronchoalveolar lavage in immunocompromised patients

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Re: Schulz, The pleiotropic effects of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus. J Pathol 2006;208:187-198

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Real-Time RT-PCR Assay for the Quantitation of Polyomavirus BK VP1 mRNA Levels in Urine

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction to evaluate human cytomegalovirus lytic gene expression.

scientific article published on 31 May 2008

Ribavirin treatment for chronic hepatitis D: a pilot study.

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Role of antiviral prophylaxis in renal transplant recipients at high risk of cytomegalovirus infection

scientific article published on 09 April 2008

Submission of scientific papers: an "early in their academic careers" scientists' point of view

scientific article published on 14 January 2008

Tailored cytomegalovirus management in lung transplant recipient: a single-center experience.

scientific article published in September 2013

Th1, Th2, Th17 and regulatory T cell pattern in psoriatic patients: modulation of cytokines and gene targets induced by etanercept treatment and correlation with clinical response.

scientific article published on 25 August 2011

The lack of cytomegalovirus-specific cellular immune response may contribute to the onset of organ infection and disease in lung transplant recipients

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

The use of ATG abrogates the antileukemic effect of cytomegalovirus reactivation in patients with acute myeloid leukemia receiving grafts from unrelated donors.

scientific article published on April 2015

Variants of parvovirus B19: bioinformatical evaluation of nested PCR assays.

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What role for human rhinoviruses in the lower respiratory tract?

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[Chronic viral hepatitis: when interferon does not work]

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

[Hepatitis E virus: a new infective agent for an old disease]

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

[Heterogeneity of antimicrosomal autoantibodies in chronic hepatitis C virus infection and delta hepatitis]

scientific article published on 01 April 1995