Curriculum and Research
DONATELLA FERRARO
(MEDS-03/A)
Promozione della Salute, Materno-Infantile, di Medicina Interna e Specialistica di Eccellenza “G. D’Alessandro”
Publications
| Date | Title | Type | Record |
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| 2025 | Multiple nodules and pustules in a traveler | Nota o commento | Go to |
| 2025 | Tamaricicola fenicei sp. nov. (Pleosporaceae, Pleosporales), a New Marine Fungus with Significant Antiviral Activity | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2025 | Post-COVID-19 Epidemiology of Viral Infections in Adults Hospitalized with Acute Respiratory Syndromes in Palermo, South of Italy | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2025 | SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy and necrotizing enterocolitis: case report and review of the literature | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2025 | Neutralizing Antibody Response to SARS-CoV-2 Variants After Two mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Doses in a Cohort of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease from a Southern Italy Tertiary Hospital | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2024 | From marine neglected substrata new fungal taxa of potential biotechnological interest: the case of Pelagia noctiluca | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2024 | Do not forget mpox! | Lettera | Go to |
| 2023 | Atypical case of monkeypox with multiple bacterial skin superinfection | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2023 | Age and Cytokine Gene Variants Modulate the Immunogenicity and Protective Effect of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-Based Vaccination | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2023 | Serological status for TORCH in women of childbearing age: a decade-long surveillance (2012-2022) in Italy | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2023 | An Analysis of the Neutralizing Antibodies against the Main SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Healthcare Workers (HCWs) Vaccinated against or Infected by SARS-CoV-2 | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2022 | Neutralizing Antibodies Response against SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Elicited by Prior Infection or mRNA BNT162b2 Vaccination | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2022 | Differing kinetics of anti-spike protein IgGs and neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 after Comirnaty (BNT162b2) immunization | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2022 | Monkeypox proctitis treated with doxycycline in an HIV MSM returning to Italy from France | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2021 | Phylogenetic analysis in the clinical risk management of an outbreak of hepatitis C virus infection among transfused thalassaemia patients in Italy | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2021 | Efficacy of 8 weeks elbasvir/grazoprevir regimen for naïve-genotype 1b, HCV infected patients with or without glucose abnormalities: Results of the EGG18 study | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2021 | Evaluation of the diagnostic performances of two commercially available assays for the detection of enteric adenovirus antigens | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2021 | Antibodies Responses to SARS-CoV-2 in a Large Cohort of Vaccinated Subjects and Seropositive Patients | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2020 | Phylodynamic Analysis and Implication of HCV Genotype 4 Variability on Antiviral Drug Response and T-Cell Recognition | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2019 | Point-of-care HCV RNA testing in the setting of DAA therapy: HCV-FiS (HEpatitis C Virus Fingerstick Study) | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2018 | HBV reactivation in patients with HCV/HBV cirrhosis on treatment with direct-acting antivirals | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2017 | Predictors of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Titers two decades after vaccination in a cohort of students and post-graduates of the Medical School at the University of Palermo, Italy | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2016 | Characterization of measles virus strains circulating in Southern Italy (Palermo area, Sicily) between 2010 and 2011 | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2016 | Effects of Eradicating Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Patients With Cirrhosis Differ With Stage of Portal Hypertension | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2015 | Impact of HBV genotypes A and D genetic variability on infection evolution | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2014 | The risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in HBV cirrhosis is affected by polymorphisms of the MERTK gene | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2014 | HCV-1b intra-subtype variability: Impact on genetic barrier to protease inhibitors | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2013 | A rs4374383 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of MERTK gene is linked to a higher likelihood of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with HCV cirrhosis | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2013 | HBsAg quantification in HBeAg negative cirrhosis on nucleoside/nucleotide analogue (NA) and risk of development of HCC | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2013 | Viral Sequence Analysis of Occult HBV Infection and Its Reactivation in Immunosuppressed Patients | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2013 | No detection of occult HBV-DNA in patients with various rheumatic diseases treated with anti-TNF agents: a two-year prospective study. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2013 | Role of IL-28B and inosine triphosphatase polymorphisms in efficacy and safety of Peg-Interferon and ribavirin in chronic hepatitis C compensated cirrhosis with and without oesophageal varices. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2013 | Fibrosis Evaluation by Transient Elastography in Patients With Long-Term Sustained HCV Clearance | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2012 | Vitamin D levels and IL28B polymorphisms are related to rapid virological response to standard of care in genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2012 | Risk of disease decompensation and HCC in patients with HCV cirrhosis non responders to PEG IFN plus RBV | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2012 | Phylogenetic Analysis of isolates from new cases of HBV infection in Southern Italy. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2011 | PEG-INTERFERON PLUS RIBAVIRIN IN HCV CIRRHOSIS WITH PORTAL HYPERTENSION: ROLE OF VIRAL AND HOST FACTORS IN HCV CLEARANCE | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2011 | LOW VITAMIN D SERUM LEVEL IS RELATED TO RAPID, EARLY AND SUSTAINED VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE TO IFN-BASED THERAPY IN GENOTYPE 1 CHRONIC HEPATITIS C | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2011 | FOLLICULAR HELPER T-CELLS POPULATE THE INTRAHEPATIC INFILTRATES OF HCV GENOTYPE-1 CHRONICALLY INFECTED PATIENTS AND PREDICT THE ACHIEVEMENT OF VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE FOLLOWING IFN-BASED TREATMENT | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2011 | Hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance are associated with severe fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis caused by HBV or HCV infection. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2011 | Liver follicular helper T-cells in chronic hepatitis C | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2011 | LIVER RELATED EVENTS AND SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH COMPENSATED HCV CIRRHOSIS: THE ROLE OF SUSTAINED VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE TO PEG-IFN BASED THERAPY AND PORTAL HYPERTENSION | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2010 | FOLLICULAR HELPER T-CELLS POPULATE THE INTRAHEPATIC INFILTRATES OF HCV GENOTYPE-1 CHRONICALLY INFECTED PATIENTS AND PREDICT THE ACHIEVEMENT OF VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE FOLLOWING IFN-BASED TREATMENT | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2010 | PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF HBV INFECTION IN SICILY: IS THE EPIDEMIOLOGY CHANGING? | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2010 | LOW VITAMIN D SERUM LEVEL IS RELATED TO RAPID, EARLY AND SUSTAINED VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE TO IFN-BASED THERAPY IN GENOTYPE 1 CHRONIC HEPATITIS C | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2009 | HCV CLEARANCE AFTER PEG IFN PLUS RBV IMPROVES THE COURSE OF HCV CIRRHOSIS REGARDLESS OF PORTAL HYPERTENSION | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2009 | PEG-INTERFERON PLUS RIBAVIRIN IN COMPENSATED HCV CIRRHOSIS WITH PORTAL HYPERTENSION: THE ROLE OF RAPID AND EARLY VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE IN PREDICTING THE SUSTAINED VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE | Abstract in rivista | Go to |
| 2009 | EVALUATING THE RISK OF HEPATITIS B REACTIVATION IN PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES: IS THE SERUM HEPATITIS B PROFILE RELIABLE? | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2009 | PEG_interferon plus Ribavirin in compensated HCV cirrhosis with portal hypertension: the role of rapid and early virological response in predicting the sustained virological response | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2009 | HCV genotypes in Sicily: is there any evidence of a shift? | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2009 | Variability of reverse transcriptase and overlapping S gene in hepatitis B virus isolates from untreated and lamivudine-resistant chronic hepatitis B patients. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2009 | PEG-interferon plus Ribavirin in compensated HCV cirrhosis with portal hypertension: the role of rapid and early virological response in predicting the sustained virological response | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2008 | Liver disease in chelated transfusion-dependent thalassemics: the role of iron and chronic hepatitis C | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2008 | Phylogenetic Reconstruction of HCV Genotype 1b Dissemination in a Small City Centre: The Camporeale Model | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2008 | Assessment of hepatitis C virus-RNA clearance under combination therapy for hepatitis C virus genotype 1: performance of transcription-mediated amplification assay | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2008 | HCV genotypes in western Sicily: any evidence for a shift? | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2008 | Liver disease in chelated transfusion-dependent thalassemics: the role of iron overload and chronic hepatitis C. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2008 | Genotyping of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 strains isolated in Northern Sicily, Italy. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2007 | INFEZIONE OCCULTA DA HBV NEL PAZIENTE IMMUNOCOMPROMESSO: STUDIO DELLA ETEROGENEITA’ VIRALE | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2007 | The impact of insulin resistance, serum adipocytokines and visceral obesity on steatosis and fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2007 | The impact of sustained virological response on clinical outcome in compensated HCV cirrhosis: a prospective cohort study | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2007 | The impact of sustained virological response on clinical outcomes in compensated HCV cirrhosis: a prospective cohort study | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2007 | Virus-related insulin resistance in HCV genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C : a major disease modifier | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2007 | Peg-interferon alone or combined with ribavirin in HCV cirrhosis with portal hypertension:a randomized controlled trial | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2007 | VARIABILITY OF THE HBV POL GENE REVERSE-TRANSCRIPTASE DOMAIN IN VIRAL ISOLATES FROM UNTREATED AND LAMIVUDINE-RESISTANT CHRONIC HEPATITIS B PATIENTS | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2007 | Infezione occulta da HBV nel paziente immunocompromesso.studio dell'eterogeneità virale | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2006 | Different doses of consensus interferon plus ribavirin in patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 1 relapsed after interferon monotherapy: a randomized controlled trial | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2006 | The effect of antiviral therapy on clinical outcome of HCV cirrhosis with portal hypertension: a prospective cohort study. | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2006 | Bayesian coalescent inference of hepatitis C virus introduction from molecular sequences: the Camporeale model | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2006 | High rate of spontaneous viral clearance in patients with iatrogenic acute hepatitis C | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2006 | Riattivazione dell'infezione occulta da HBV nel paziente immunocompromesso:studio dell'eterogeneità virale | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2006 | RIATTIVAZIONE DELL’INFEZIONE OCCULTA DA HBV NEL PAZIENTE IMMUNOCOMPROMESSO: STUDIO DELLA ETEROGENEITÀ VIRALE | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2005 | Epidemiologia molecolare dell'infezione da HCV in un Comune Siciliano | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2005 | Valutazione della clearance di HCV-RNA sotto trattamentio antivirale con Transcription-Mediated Amplification (TMA) | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2005 | Valutazione della clearance di HCV-RNA sotto trattamento antivirale con Transcription-Mediated Amplification (TMA) | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2005 | RUOLO DELL’INFEZIONE OCCULTA DA HBV NEL PAZIENTE IMMUNOCOMPROMESSO | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2005 | Infezione occulta da HBV in pazienti con malattie oncoematologiche | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2005 | Hepatitis B virus reactivation and alemtuzumab therapy | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2005 | Cinetica della risposta virologica e della comparsa di mutanti virali in pazienti con malattia cronica di fegato HBV-correlatain terapia con adefovir | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2005 | HBV-DNA suppression and disease course in HBV cirrhosis patients on long-term lamivudine therapy | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2004 | HVR-1 quasispecies modifications occur early and are correlated to initial but not sustained response in HCV-infected patients treated with pegylated- or standard-interferon and ribavirin | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2004 | Hepatitis B virus reactivation and alemtuzumab therapy | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2004 | Infezione occulta da HBV in pazienti con malattie linfoproliferative in trattamento chemioterapico | Proceedings | Go to |
| 2003 | ISDR pattern and evolution in patients with chronic hepatitis C treated with standard or PEG-IFN plus ribavirin | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2003 | Heterogeneity of HVR-1 quasispecies is predictive of early but not sustained virological response in genotype 1b-infected patients undergoing combined treatment with PEG- or STD-IFN plus RBV | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2003 | Occult HBV infection and suppression of HCV replication in the early phase of combination therapy for chronic hepatitis C | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2003 | IL-10 and TNF-α polymorphisms and the recovery from HCV infection | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2002 | Anti-hepatitis A virus seroprevalence and seroconversion in a cohort of patients with chronic viral hepatitis | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2002 | Early viral clearance and sustained response in chronic hepatitis C: a controlled trial of interferon and ribavirin after high-dose interferon induction | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 2002 | Endemic hepatitis C virus infection in a Sicilian town: Further evidence for iatrogenic transmission | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 1990 | Triiodothyronine accelerates the synthesis of Synapsin I in developing neurons from fetal rat brain cultured in a synthetic medium | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 1990 | Binding of flunitrazepam to differentiating neurons cultured in a chemically defined, hormone-supplemented medium | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 1987 | Inhibition of glial proliferation in vitro by serum from patients with multiple sclerosis | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 1987 | Triiodothyronine‐Induced Shortening of Chromatin Repeat Length in Neurons Cultured in a Chemically Denned Medium | Articolo in rivista | Go to |
| 1986 | Rat CNS neurons are not yet programmed to shorten their chromatin repeat length at the end of fetal neurogenesis | Articolo in rivista | Go to |